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GENUS PALAQUIUM

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Meaning:

Large genus of Malaysian trees with milky juice and leathery leaves

Synonyms:

genus Palaquium; Palaquium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "genus Palaquium"):

gutta-percha tree; Palaquium gutta (one of several East Indian trees yielding gutta-percha)

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

family Sapotaceae; sapodilla family; Sapotaceae (tropical trees or shrubs with milky juice and often edible fleshy fruit)

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