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STENOCARPUS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small genus of timber trees; Australia to Malaysiaplay

Synonyms:

genus Stenocarpus; Stenocarpus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Stenocarpus" 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 "Stenocarpus"):

firewheel tree; Stenocarpus sinuatus; wheel tree (eastern Australian tree widely cultivated as a shade tree and for its glossy leaves and circular clusters of showy red to orange-scarlet flowers)

beefwood; scrub beefwood; Stenocarpus salignus (tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood)

Holonyms ("Stenocarpus" is a member of...):

family Proteaceae; protea family; Proteaceae (large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers; constitutes the order Proteales)

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