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SILVER QUANDONG TREE
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
Synonyms:
blue fig; Brisbane quandong; Elaeocarpus grandis; quandong; quandong tree; silver quandong tree
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("silver quandong tree" 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 (parts of "silver quandong tree"):
silver quandong (pale easily worked timber from the quandong tree)
blue fig; quandong (the fruit of the Brisbane quandong tree)
Holonyms ("silver quandong tree" is a member of...):
Elaeocarpus; genus Elaeocarpus (type genus of the family Elaeocarpaceae)