JAVA OLIVES

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Large tree of Old World tropics having foul-smelling orange-red blossoms followed by red pods enclosing oil-rich seeds sometimes used as food

Synonyms:

Java olives; kalumpang; Sterculia foetida

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Java olives" is a kind of...):

sterculia (any tree of the genus Sterculia)

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