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Answer for the clue "Genus of prickly shrubs and small trees of the Caribbean region ", 4 letters:
brya

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Brya is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae . It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae , and was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Pterocarpus clade of the Dalbergieae . Species include Brya ebenus , a valuable timber tree. ...

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At about the twenty-fifth minute a small brya-a four-footed, four-clawed herbivore about the size of a pig-wandered toward the patch of blue while rooting in the dense growth beneath it for edible aerial tubers.

At about the twenty-fifth minute a small bryaa four-footed, four-clawed herbivore about the size of a pigwandered toward the patch of blue while rooting in the dense growth beneath it for edible aerial tubers.

Cohoma was equally awed, especially when he considered he might easily have gone the way of the brya had not the furcots intervened.