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CRESCENTIA CUJETE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds
Synonyms:
calabash; calabash tree; Crescentia cujete
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Crescentia cujete" 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 ("Crescentia cujete" is a member of...):
Crescentia; genus Crescentia (a genus of tropical American trees of the family Bignoniaceae; has a short trunk and crooked limbs and drooping branches)