GENUS NAGEIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Nageia mean? 

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

1. small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib; eastern Asia including India and Philippines and New Guinea

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS NAGEIA (noun)

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Meaning:

Small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib; eastern Asia including India and Philippines and New Guinea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Nageia; Nageia

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

gymnosperm genus (a genus of gymnosperms)

Meronyms (members of "genus Nageia"):

Nageia nagi; nagi (medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves; southern China to Taiwan and southern Japan)

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

family Podocarpaceae; Podocarpaceae; podocarpus family (gymnosperms with simple persistent needlelike or scalelike leaves)