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ALBIZIA

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Meaning:

Any of numerous trees of the genus Albizia

Synonyms:

albizia; albizzia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("albizia" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "albizia"):

Albizia julibrissin; Albizzia julibrissin; silk tree (attractive domed or flat-topped Asiatic tree having bipinnate leaves and flowers with long silky stamens)

Albizia lebbeck; Albizzia lebbeck; siris; siris tree (large spreading Old World tree having large leaves and globose clusters of greenish-yellow flowers and long seed pods that clatter in the wind)

Albizia saman; monkey pod; monkeypod; rain tree; saman; zaman; zamang (large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and seed pods that are eaten by cattle)

Holonyms ("albizia" is a member of...):

genus Albizia; genus Albizzia (large genus of unarmed trees and shrubs of Old World tropics)

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