GONCALO ALVES

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Meaning:

Tall tropical American timber tree especially abundant in eastern Brazil; yields hard strong durable zebrawood with straight grain and dark strips on a pinkish to yellowish ground; widely used for veneer and furniture and heavy construction

Synonyms:

Astronium fraxinifolium; goncalo alves

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("goncalo alves" is a kind of...):

zebrawood; zebrawood tree (any of various trees or shrubs having mottled or striped wood)

Holonyms ("goncalo alves" is a member of...):

Astronium; genus Astronium (a genus of dicotyledonous plants of the family Anacardiaceae)

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