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Genus of often thorny tropical trees and shrubs and some vines
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pisonia
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n. (context botany English) Any of the genus (taxlink Pisonia genus) of nyctaginaceous flowering plants.
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Pisonia is a genus of flowering plants in the four o'clock flower family, Nyctaginaceae . It was named for Dutch physician and naturalist Willem Piso (1611–1678). Certain species in this genus are known as catchbirdtrees , birdcatcher trees or birdlime ...
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Almost as soon as he left the path, he lost his direction in the densely packed pandanus and pisonia trees, and was floundering up to his knees in the sandy soil that the muttonbirds had riddled with their burrows.