ALSTONIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Alstonia mean? 

• ALSTONIA (noun)
  The noun ALSTONIA has 1 sense:

1. genus of evergreen trees or shrubs with white funnel-shaped flowers and milky sap; tropical Africa to southeastern Asia and Polynesia

  Familiarity information: ALSTONIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALSTONIA (noun)

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Meaning:

Genus of evergreen trees or shrubs with white funnel-shaped flowers and milky sap; tropical Africa to southeastern Asia and Polynesia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Alstonia; genus Alstonia

Hypernyms ("Alstonia" 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 "Alstonia"):

Alstonia scholaris; devil tree; dita; dita bark (evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes; bark formerly used medicinally)

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

Apocynaceae; dogbane family; family Apocynaceae (chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers; many are sources of drugs)