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BENDY TREE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
bendy tree; portia tree; seaside mahoe; Thespesia populnea
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("bendy tree" is a kind of...):
tulipwood tree (any of various trees yielding variously colored woods similar to true tulipwood)
Holonyms ("bendy tree" is a member of...):
genus Thespesia; Thespesia (a small genus of tropical trees including the portia tree)
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