BAPHIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Baphia mean? 

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

1. small genus of shrubs and lianas and trees of Africa and Madagascar

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAPHIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of shrubs and lianas and trees of Africa and Madagascar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Baphia; genus Baphia

Hypernyms ("Baphia" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Baphia"):

African sandalwood; Baphia nitida; camwood (small shrubby African tree with hard wood used as a dyewood yielding a red dye)

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

Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)