STENOCARPUS SALIGNUS

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Meaning:

Tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood

Synonyms:

beefwood; scrub beefwood; Stenocarpus salignus

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Stenocarpus salignus" 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 "Stenocarpus salignus"):

beefwood (any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork)

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

genus Stenocarpus; Stenocarpus (small genus of timber trees; Australia to Malaysia)