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SEASIDE MAHOE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Pantropical tree of usually seacoasts sometimes cultivated as an ornamental for its rounded heart-shaped leaves and showy yellow and purple flowers; yields valuable pink to dark red close-grained wood and oil from its seedsplay

Synonyms:

bendy tree; portia tree; seaside mahoe; Thespesia populnea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("seaside mahoe" is a kind of...):

tulipwood tree (any of various trees yielding variously colored woods similar to true tulipwood)

Holonyms ("seaside mahoe" is a member of...):

genus Thespesia; Thespesia (a small genus of tropical trees including the portia tree)

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