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1. Pantropical tree of usually seacoasts sometimes cultivated as an ornamental for its rounded heart-shaped leaves and showy yellow and purple flowers; yields valuable pink to dark red close-grained wood and oil from its seeds
   - bendy tree, seaside mahoe, Thespesia populnea

1. A taxonomic genus, within subfamily Spartaeinae - a jumping spider
    
2. An inner satellite of the planet Uranus

Type of: tulipwood tree

Part of: genus Thespesia, Thespesia

Encyclopedia: Portia tree