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GENUS NAGEIA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib; eastern Asia including India and Philippines and New Guinea

Synonyms:

genus Nageia; Nageia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Nageia" is a kind of...):

gymnosperm genus (a genus of gymnosperms)

Meronyms (members of "genus Nageia"):

Nageia nagi; nagi (medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves; southern China to Taiwan and southern Japan)

Holonyms ("genus Nageia" is a member of...):

family Podocarpaceae; Podocarpaceae; podocarpus family (gymnosperms with simple persistent needlelike or scalelike leaves)

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