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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small hard-wood tree, a genus of a single South African species, P. Capensis, belonging to the polypetalous order Sapindaceæ and the tribe Nephelieæ, distinguished by the regular flowers, solitary ovules, deep-lobed or divided fruit, and unequally five-lobed calyx.

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