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BUMELIA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Deciduous or evergreen American shrubs small trees having very hard wood and milky latex

Synonyms:

Bumelia; genus Bumelia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Bumelia"):

buckthorn (any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia)

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

family Sapotaceae; sapodilla family; Sapotaceae (tropical trees or shrubs with milky juice and often edible fleshy fruit)

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