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GENUS COLUBRINA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Colubrina mean?
• GENUS COLUBRINA (noun)
The noun GENUS COLUBRINA has 1 sense:
1. mostly tropical American shrubs or small trees with small yellowish flowers and yellow or red fruits
Familiarity information: GENUS COLUBRINA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mostly tropical American shrubs or small trees with small yellowish flowers and yellow or red fruits
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Colubrina; genus Colubrina
Hypernyms ("genus Colubrina" 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 "genus Colubrina"):
nakedwood (any of several small to medium-sized trees of Florida and West Indies with thin scaly bark and heavy dark heartwood)
Holonyms ("genus Colubrina" is a member of...):
buckthorn family; family Rhamnaceae; Rhamnaceae (trees and shrubs usually thorny bearing drupaceous fruit many having medicinal value)
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