Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun palo_verde

1 sense of palo verde

Sense 1
palo verde, Parkinsonia florida, Cercidium floridum -- (densely branched spiny tree of southwestern United States having showy yellow flowers and blue-green bark; sometimes placed in genus Cercidium)
       => tree -- (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)


1 sense of paloverde

Sense 1
paloverde -- (a thorny shrub of the genus Cercidium that grows in dry parts of the southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico; has smooth light green bark and racemes of yellow flowers and small leaves)
       => shrub, bush -- (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)