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GENUS CALYCOPHYLLUM
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Medium to large tropical American trees having shiny reddish-brown shredding bark
Synonyms:
Calycophyllum; genus Calycophyllum
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Calycophyllum" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Calycophyllum"):
Calycophyllum candidissimum; dagame; lemonwood tree (source of a tough elastic wood)
Holonyms ("genus Calycophyllum" is a member of...):
family Rubiaceae; madder family; Rubiaceae (widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry)