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GENUS SWIETINIA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Tropical American mahogany trees

Synonyms:

genus Swietinia; Swietinia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Swietinia"):

Cuban mahogany; Dominican mahogany; Swietinia mahogani; true mahogany (mahogany tree of West Indies)

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

family Meliaceae; mahogany family; Meliaceae (tropical trees and shrubs including many important timber and ornamental trees)

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