SINCE 1828
Caesalpinia
noun
Cae·sal·pin·ia
| \ ˌsez-ˌal-ˈpin-ē-ə
, ˌsē-ˌzal-
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, ˌsē-ˌzal-
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Medical Definition of Caesalpinia
: a genus of usually small spiny tropical trees of the family Leguminosae that have small whitish-green, yellow, or reddish flowers in showy racemes and that include the divi-divi
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