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BAPHIA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small genus of shrubs and lianas and trees of Africa and Madagascar

Synonyms:

Baphia; genus Baphia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Baphia"):

African sandalwood; Baphia nitida; camwood (small shrubby African tree with hard wood used as a dyewood yielding a red dye)

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

Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)

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