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GENUS CECROPIA
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I. (noun)
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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 ("genus 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 "genus Cecropia"):
Cecropia peltata; imbauba; snake wood; trumpet-wood; trumpet tree; trumpetwood (tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems)
Holonyms ("genus Cecropia" is a member of...):
Cecropiaceae; family Cecropiaceae (in some classifications included in family Moraceae)