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CORDIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Cordia mean?
• CORDIA (noun)
The noun CORDIA has 1 sense:
1. tropical deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs of the family Boraginaceae
Familiarity information: CORDIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tropical deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs of the family Boraginaceae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Cordia; genus Cordia
Hypernyms ("Cordia" 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 "Cordia"):
Cordia alliodora; cypre; Equador laurel; princewood; salmwood; Spanish elm (large tropical American tree of the genus Cordia grown for its abundant creamy white flowers and valuable wood)
Cordia gerascanthus; princewood; Spanish elm (tropical American timber tree)
Holonyms ("Cordia" is a member of...):
borage family; Boraginaceae; family Boraginaceae (a widely distributed family of plants distinguished by circinate flowers and nutlike fruit)
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