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TULIPWOOD TREE

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Meaning:

Any of various trees yielding variously colored woods similar to true tulipwood

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("tulipwood 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)

Meronyms (substance of "tulipwood tree"):

tulipwood (the variegated or showily striped ornamental wood of various tulipwood trees)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tulipwood tree"):

bendy tree; portia tree; seaside mahoe; Thespesia populnea (pantropical tree of usually seacoasts sometimes cultivated as an ornamental for its rounded heart-shaped leaves and showy yellow and purple flowers; yields valuable pink to dark red close-grained wood and oil from its seeds)

harpullia (any of various tree of the genus Harpullia)

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