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GENUS CRESCENTIA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
A genus of tropical American trees of the family Bignoniaceae; has a short trunk and crooked limbs and drooping branches
Synonyms:
Crescentia; genus Crescentia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Crescentia" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Crescentia"):
calabash; calabash tree; Crescentia cujete (tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds)
Holonyms ("genus Crescentia" is a member of...):
Bignoniaceae; family Bignoniaceae (trees or shrubs or woody vines or herbs having fruit resembling gourds or capsules; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales)