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BLUE FIG

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit

Synonyms:

blue fig; Brisbane quandong; Elaeocarpus grandis; quandong; quandong tree; silver quandong tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("blue fig" 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)

Meronyms (parts of "blue fig"):

silver quandong (pale easily worked timber from the quandong tree)

blue fig; quandong (the fruit of the Brisbane quandong tree)

Holonyms ("blue fig" is a member of...):

Elaeocarpus; genus Elaeocarpus (type genus of the family Elaeocarpaceae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The fruit of the Brisbane quandong tree

Synonyms:

blue fig; quandong

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("blue fig" is a kind of...):

fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)

Holonyms ("blue fig" is a part of...):

blue fig; Brisbane quandong; Elaeocarpus grandis; quandong; quandong tree; silver quandong tree (Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit)

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