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COUMAROUNA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tropical American trees: tonka beans
Synonyms:
Coumarouna; Dipteryx; genus Coumarouna; genus Dipteryx
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Coumarouna" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "Coumarouna"):
Coumarouna odorata; Dipteryx odorata; tonka bean; tonka bean tree (tall tropical South American tree having pulpy egg-shaped pods of fragrant black almond-shaped seeds used for flavoring)
Holonyms ("Coumarouna" is a member of...):
Fabaceae; family Fabaceae; family Leguminosae; legume family; Leguminosae; pea family (a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae)