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CALYCOPHYLLUM

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Medium to large tropical American trees having shiny reddish-brown shredding bark

Synonyms:

Calycophyllum; genus Calycophyllum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "Calycophyllum"):

Calycophyllum candidissimum; dagame; lemonwood tree (source of a tough elastic wood)

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

family Rubiaceae; madder family; Rubiaceae (widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry)

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