black mangrove

Noun

• A tree or woody shrub common in swampy salt-water areas along the Atlantic tropical coasts of Africa and South America, extending north into the Pacific tropics, and into the Gulf Coast and South Florida in North America (Avicennia germinans (species))
• Aegiceras corniculatum (species)
• Bruguiera gymnorhiza (species)
• Lumnitzera (genus) spp.