SHINGLE TREE

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Meaning:

East Indian timber tree with hard durable wood used especially for tea boxes

Synonyms:

Acrocarpus fraxinifolius; shingle tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("shingle tree" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Holonyms ("shingle tree" is a member of...):

Acrocarpus; genus Acrocarpus (small genus of trees of Indonesia and Malaysia)

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