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NAGEIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nageia mean? 

NAGEIA (noun)
  The noun 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 Guineaplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


NAGEIA (noun)


Sense 1

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

gymnosperm genus (a genus of gymnosperms)

Meronyms (members of "Nageia"):

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

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

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


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