Acacia

n. small tree or shrub that produces clusters of yellow flowers

Acacia is a genus of shrubs and trees belonging to the subfamily Mimosoideae of the family Fabaceae, first described in Africa by the Swedish botanist Linnaeus in 1773.Acacias are also known as thorntrees or wattles, including the yellow-fever acacia and umbrella acacias.There are roughly 1300 species of Acacia worldwide, about 960 of them native to Australia, with the remainder spread around the tropical to warm-temperate regions of both hemispheres, including Africa, southern Asia, and the Americas.
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Noun
1. any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia
(hypernym) tree
(hyponym) shittah, shittah tree
(member-holonym) genus Acacia
(substance-meronym) gum arabic, gum acacia

n. acacia, small tree or shrub that produces clusters of yellow flowers; wattle, interwoven twigs and branches used for fences or walls

n. acacia, small tree or shrub that produces clusters of yellow flowers (Botany)