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PAYENA

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Meaning:

Genus of medium to large Malaysian trees yielding gutta-percha

Synonyms:

genus Payena; Payena

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Payena" 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 "Payena"):

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

Holonyms ("Payena" 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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