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PICRASMA

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Meaning:

Small genus of deciduous trees of tropical America and Asia

Synonyms:

genus Picrasma; Picrasma

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Picrasma" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Picrasma"):

bitterwood; Jamaica quassia; Picrasma excelsa; Picrasma excelsum (West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia)

Holonyms ("Picrasma" is a member of...):

family Simaroubaceae; quassia family; Simaroubaceae (chiefly tropical trees and shrubs with bitter bark having dry usually one-seeded winged fruit)

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