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ALBIZIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does albizia mean?
• ALBIZIA (noun)
The noun ALBIZIA has 1 sense:
1. any of numerous trees of the genus Albizia
Familiarity information: ALBIZIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of numerous trees of the genus Albizia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
albizia; albizzia
Hypernyms ("albizia" 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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "albizia"):
Albizia julibrissin; Albizzia julibrissin; silk tree (attractive domed or flat-topped Asiatic tree having bipinnate leaves and flowers with long silky stamens)
Albizia lebbeck; Albizzia lebbeck; siris; siris tree (large spreading Old World tree having large leaves and globose clusters of greenish-yellow flowers and long seed pods that clatter in the wind)
Albizia saman; monkey pod; monkeypod; rain tree; saman; zaman; zamang (large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and seed pods that are eaten by cattle)
Holonyms ("albizia" is a member of...):
genus Albizia; genus Albizzia (large genus of unarmed trees and shrubs of Old World tropics)
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