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GENUS STENOCARPUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Stenocarpus mean?
• GENUS STENOCARPUS (noun)
The noun GENUS STENOCARPUS has 1 sense:
1. small genus of timber trees; Australia to Malaysia
Familiarity information: GENUS STENOCARPUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small genus of timber trees; Australia to Malaysia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Stenocarpus; Stenocarpus
Hypernyms ("genus Stenocarpus" 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 Stenocarpus"):
firewheel tree; Stenocarpus sinuatus; wheel tree (eastern Australian tree widely cultivated as a shade tree and for its glossy leaves and circular clusters of showy red to orange-scarlet flowers)
beefwood; scrub beefwood; Stenocarpus salignus (tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood)
Holonyms ("genus Stenocarpus" is a member of...):
family Proteaceae; protea family; Proteaceae (large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers; constitutes the order Proteales)
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