FEVER TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fever tree mean? 

• FEVER TREE (noun)
  The noun FEVER TREE has 4 senses:

1. any of several trees having leaves or bark used to allay fever or thought to indicate regions free of fever

2. ornamental shrub or small tree of swampy areas in southwestern United States having large pink or white sepals and yielding Georgia bark for treating fever

3. tall fast-growing timber tree with leaves containing a medicinal oil; young leaves are bluish

4. African tree supposed to mark healthful regions

  Familiarity information: FEVER TREE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEVER TREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several trees having leaves or bark used to allay fever or thought to indicate regions free of fever

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("fever tree" 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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Ornamental shrub or small tree of swampy areas in southwestern United States having large pink or white sepals and yielding Georgia bark for treating fever

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bitter-bark; fever tree; Georgia bark; Pinckneya pubens

Hypernyms ("fever tree" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("fever tree" is a member of...):

genus Pinckneya; Pinckneya (small genus of shrubs or small trees of southeastern United States and northern South America)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Tall fast-growing timber tree with leaves containing a medicinal oil; young leaves are bluish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

blue gum; Eucalyptus globulus; fever tree

Hypernyms ("fever tree" is a kind of...):

eucalypt; eucalyptus; eucalyptus tree (a tree of the genus Eucalyptus)

Sense 4

Meaning:

African tree supposed to mark healthful regions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Acacia xanthophloea; fever tree

Hypernyms ("fever tree" is a kind of...):

acacia (any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia)

Holonyms ("fever tree" is a member of...):

genus Acacia (large genus of shrubs and trees and some woody vines of Central and South America, Africa, Australia and Polynesia: wattle; mimosa)