| Noun | 1. | genus Lonchocarpus - genus of chiefly tropical American shrubs and trees having pinnate leaves and red or white flowers rosid dicot genus - a genus of dicotyledonous plants Papilionoideae, subfamily Papilionoideae - alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae cube - any of several tropical American woody plants of the genus Lonchocarpus whose roots are used locally as a fish poison and commercially as a source of rotenone |