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DALBERGIA CEARENSIS

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Meaning:

Brazilian tree yielding a handsome cabinet wood

Synonyms:

Dalbergia cearensis; kingwood; kingwood tree

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Dalbergia cearensis" 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)

Meronyms (substance of "Dalbergia cearensis"):

kingwood (handsome violet-streaked wood of the kingwood tree; used especially in cabinetwork)

Holonyms ("Dalbergia cearensis" is a member of...):

Dalbergia; genus Dalbergia (large genus of tropical trees having pinnate leaves and paniculate flowers and cultivated commercially for their dramatically grained and colored timbers)

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