ACACIA MELANOXYLON

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Meaning:

Tall Australian acacia yielding highly valued black timber

Synonyms:

Acacia melanoxylon; lightwood

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Acacia melanoxylon" is a kind of...):

blackwood; blackwood tree (any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood)

Holonyms ("Acacia melanoxylon" is a member of...):

genus Acacia (large genus of shrubs and trees and some woody vines of Central and South America, Africa, Australia and Polynesia: wattle; mimosa)

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