GENUS ACACIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Acacia mean? 

• GENUS ACACIA (noun)
  The noun GENUS ACACIA has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: GENUS ACACIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS ACACIA (noun)

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Meaning:

Large genus of shrubs and trees and some woody vines of Central and South America, Africa, Australia and Polynesia: wattle; mimosa

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Acacia" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Acacia"):

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

shittah; shittah tree (source of a wood mentioned frequently in the Bible; probably a species of genus Acacia)

Acacia auriculiformis; black wattle (Australian tree that yields tanning materials)

Acacia cambegei; gidgee; stinking wattle (scrubby Australian acacia having extremely foul-smelling blossoms)

Acacia catechu; catechu; Jerusalem thorn (East Indian spiny tree having twice-pinnate leaves and yellow flowers followed by flat pods; source of black catechu)

Acacia dealbata; mimosa; silver wattle (evergreen Australasian tree having white or silvery bark and young leaves and yellow flowers)

Acacia farnesiana; cassie; flame tree; huisache; mimosa bush; scented wattle; sweet acacia; sweet wattle (tropical American thorny shrub or small tree; fragrant yellow flowers used in making perfumery)

Acacia melanoxylon; lightwood (tall Australian acacia yielding highly valued black timber)

Acacia pycnantha; golden wattle (shrubby Australian tree having clusters of fragrant golden yellow flowers; widely cultivated as an ornamental)

Acacia xanthophloea; fever tree (African tree supposed to mark healthful regions)

Holonyms ("genus Acacia" is a member of...):

Mimosoideae; subfamily Mimosoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Mimosaceae)