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ENTEROLOBIUM

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small genus of tropical American timber trees closely allied to genus Albizia

Synonyms:

Enterolobium; genus Enterolobium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Enterolobium"):

conacaste; elephant's ear; Enterolobium cyclocarpa (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)

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

Mimosoideae; subfamily Mimosoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Mimosaceae)

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