CECROPIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cecropia mean? 

• CECROPIA (noun)
  The noun CECROPIA has 2 senses:

1. large genus of tropical American trees that yield a bast fiber used for cordage and bark used in tanning; milky juice yields caoutchouc

2. North American silkworm moth; larvae feed on the leaves of forest trees

  Familiarity information: CECROPIA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CECROPIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large genus of tropical American trees that yield a bast fiber used for cordage and bark used in tanning; milky juice yields caoutchouc

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cecropia; genus Cecropia

Hypernyms ("Cecropia" 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 "Cecropia"):

Cecropia peltata; imbauba; snake wood; trumpet-wood; trumpet tree; trumpetwood (tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems)

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

Cecropiaceae; family Cecropiaceae (in some classifications included in family Moraceae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

North American silkworm moth; larvae feed on the leaves of forest trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

cecropia; cecropia moth; Hyalophora cecropia

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

saturniid; saturniid moth (large brightly colored and usually tropical moth; larvae spin silken cocoons)