CARACOLITO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does caracolito mean? 

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

1. large Costa Rican tree having light-colored wood suitable for cabinetry; similar to the African lepidobotrys in wood structure as well as in fruit and flowers and leaves and seeds; often classified in other families

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARACOLITO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large Costa Rican tree having light-colored wood suitable for cabinetry; similar to the African lepidobotrys in wood structure as well as in fruit and flowers and leaves and seeds; often classified in other families

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

caracolito; Ruptiliocarpon caracolito

Hypernyms ("caracolito" 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 ("caracolito" is a member of...):

genus Ruptiliocarpon; Ruptiliocarpon (new (1993) genus of trees of Central America now recognized as similar to those of genus Lepidobotrys)