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BAPHIA NITIDA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Baphia nitida mean?
• BAPHIA NITIDA (noun)
The noun BAPHIA NITIDA has 1 sense:
1. small shrubby African tree with hard wood used as a dyewood yielding a red dye
Familiarity information: BAPHIA NITIDA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small shrubby African tree with hard wood used as a dyewood yielding a red dye
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
African sandalwood; Baphia nitida; camwood
Hypernyms ("Baphia nitida" 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)
Holonyms ("Baphia nitida" is a member of...):
Baphia; genus Baphia (small genus of shrubs and lianas and trees of Africa and Madagascar)
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