Term: bastinado: a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels
Broader: torture: the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason | Unrelated: avicenniaceae: used in some classifications: coextensive with the genus Avicennia