CONACASTE

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Meaning:

Tropical South American tree having a wide-spreading crown of bipinnate leaves and coiled ear-shaped fruits; grown for shade and ornament as well as valuable timber

Synonyms:

conacaste; elephant's ear; Enterolobium cyclocarpa

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("conacaste" 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 ("conacaste" is a member of...):

Enterolobium; genus Enterolobium (small genus of tropical American timber trees closely allied to genus Albizia)

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