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GENUS HERITIERA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Heritiera mean?
• GENUS HERITIERA (noun)
The noun GENUS HERITIERA has 1 sense:
1. small genus of timber trees of eastern Asia, Australasia and tropical Africa that form large buttresses
Familiarity information: GENUS HERITIERA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small genus of timber trees of eastern Asia, Australasia and tropical Africa that form large buttresses
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Heritiera; genus Terrietia; Heritiera; Terrietia
Hypernyms ("genus Heritiera" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Holonyms ("genus Heritiera" is a member of...):
family Sterculiaceae; sterculia family; Sterculiaceae (a large family of plants of order Malvales)
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