genus Hymenaea

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genus Hymenaea - genus of tropical American timber trees

rosid dicot genus - a genus of dicotyledonous plants

Fabaceae, family Fabaceae, family Leguminosae, legume family, Leguminosae, pea family - a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae

courbaril, Hymenaea courbaril - West Indian locust tree having pinnate leaves and panicles of large white or purplish flowers; yields very hard tough wood

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Colombian copal is the subfossil resins of leguminous trees of the genus Hymenaea sp.

Los primeros registros de gorgojos (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) del cuaternario colombiano copal

Many medicinal plants with cytotoxic activity have been analyzed for antimutagenic activity (WHO, 2011), as for example, other species of the genus Hymenaea, which showed antiproliferative and antimutagenic effect in cells treated with mutagenic compounds (Cartaxo et al., 2010; Sturbelle et al., 2008; Pettit et al., 2003; Abdel-Kader et al., 2002).

Antimitotic and antimutagenic action of the hymenaea stigonocarpa bark on dividing cells/Acao antimitotica e antimutagenica do ritidoma de Hymenaea stigonocarpa Mart ex Hayne na divisao celular