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CECROPIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
North American silkworm moth; larvae feed on the leaves of forest trees
Synonyms:
cecropia; cecropia moth; Hyalophora cecropia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cecropia" is a kind of...):
saturniid; saturniid moth (large brightly colored and usually tropical moth; larvae spin silken cocoons)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Large genus of tropical American trees that yield a bast fiber used for cordage and bark used in tanning; milky juice yields caoutchouc
Synonyms:
Cecropia; genus Cecropia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Cecropia" is a kind of...):
dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "Cecropia"):
Cecropia peltata; imbauba; snake wood; trumpet-wood; trumpet tree; trumpetwood (tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems)
Holonyms ("Cecropia" is a member of...):
Cecropiaceae; family Cecropiaceae (in some classifications included in family Moraceae)