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SILVER ASH

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Meaning:

Any of various timber trees of the genus Flindersia

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("silver ash" 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "silver ash"):

Flindersia australis; flindosa; flindosy; native beech (tall Australian timber tree yielding tough hard wood used for staves etc)

bunji-bunji; Flindersia schottiana (Australian timber tree whose bark yields a poison)

Holonyms ("silver ash" is a member of...):

Flindersia; genus Flindersia (small genus of Australian timber trees)

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