YLANG-YLANG

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Meaning:

Evergreen Asian tree with aromatic greenish-yellow flowers yielding a volatile oil; widely grown in the tropics as an ornamental

Synonyms:

Cananga odorata; ilang-ilang; ylang-ylang

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("ylang-ylang" is a kind of...):

angiospermous tree; flowering tree (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)

Holonyms ("ylang-ylang" is a member of...):

Cananga; Canangium; genus Cananga; genus Canangium (a genus of Malayan tree)