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GENUS FALCATIFOLIUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sickle pines: dioecious evergreen tropical trees and shrubs having sickle-shaped leaves; similar to Dacrycarpus in habit; Malaysia and Philippines to New Guinea and New Caledonia
Synonyms:
Falcatifolium; genus Falcatifolium
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Falcatifolium" is a kind of...):
gymnosperm genus (a genus of gymnosperms)
Meronyms (members of "genus Falcatifolium"):
common sickle pine; Falcatifolium falciforme (small tropical rain forest tree of Indonesia and Malaysia)
Falcatifolium taxoides; yellow-leaf sickle pine (a rain forest tree or shrub of New Caledonia having a conic crown and pale green sickle-shaped leaves; host species for the rare parasite yew)
Holonyms ("genus Falcatifolium" is a member of...):
family Podocarpaceae; Podocarpaceae; podocarpus family (gymnosperms with simple persistent needlelike or scalelike leaves)
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