FALCATIFOLIUM TAXOIDES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Falcatifolium taxoides mean? 

• FALCATIFOLIUM TAXOIDES (noun)
  The noun FALCATIFOLIUM TAXOIDES has 1 sense:

1. a rain forest tree or shrub of New Caledonia having a conic crown and pale green sickle-shaped leaves; host species for the rare parasite yew

  Familiarity information: FALCATIFOLIUM TAXOIDES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FALCATIFOLIUM TAXOIDES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A rain forest tree or shrub of New Caledonia having a conic crown and pale green sickle-shaped leaves; host species for the rare parasite yew

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Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Falcatifolium taxoides; yellow-leaf sickle pine

Hypernyms ("Falcatifolium taxoides" is a kind of...):

conifer; coniferous tree (any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones)

Holonyms ("Falcatifolium taxoides" is a member of...):

Falcatifolium; genus Falcatifolium (sickle pines: dioecious evergreen tropical trees and shrubs having sickle-shaped leaves; similar to Dacrycarpus in habit; Malaysia and Philippines to New Guinea and New Caledonia)