PERUVIAN BALSAM

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Meaning:

Tree of South and Central America yielding an aromatic balsam

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Peruvian balsam" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Meronyms (substance of "Peruvian balsam"):

balsam of Peru (dark brown syrupy balsam from the Peruvian balsam tree used especially in dressing wounds and treating certain skin diseases)

Holonyms ("Peruvian balsam" is a member of...):

genus Myroxylon; Myroxylon (a genus of tropical American trees having pinnate leaves and white flowers)