CAMWOOD

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Meaning:

Small shrubby African tree with hard wood used as a dyewood yielding a red dye

Synonyms:

African sandalwood; Baphia nitida; camwood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("camwood" 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)

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

Baphia; genus Baphia (small genus of shrubs and lianas and trees of Africa and Madagascar)

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