HEVEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hevea mean? 

• HEVEA (noun)
  The noun HEVEA has 1 sense:

1. small genus of South American trees yielding latex

  Familiarity information: HEVEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEVEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of South American trees yielding latex

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Hevea; Hevea; rubber tree

Context example:

rubber trees are usually cultivated in plantations

Hypernyms ("Hevea" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Holonyms ("Hevea" is a member of...):

Euphorbiaceae; family Euphorbiaceae; spurge family (a family of plants of order Geraniales)