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NECKLACE TREE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does necklace tree mean?
• NECKLACE TREE (noun)
The noun NECKLACE TREE has 1 sense:
1. a tree of the genus Ormosia having seeds used as beads
Familiarity information: NECKLACE TREE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A tree of the genus Ormosia having seeds used as beads
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("necklace tree" is a kind of...):
tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "necklace tree"):
bead tree; jumby bean; jumby tree; Ormosia monosperma (small tree of West Indies and northeastern Venezuela having large oblong pointed leaflets and panicles of purple flowers; seeds are black or scarlet with black spots)
jumbie bead; jumby bead; Ormosia coarctata (West Indian tree similar to Ormosia monosperma but larger and having smaller leaflets and smaller seeds)
Holonyms ("necklace tree" is a member of...):
genus Ormosia; Ormosia (genus of tropical shrubs and trees having usually odd-pinnate leaves with large leaflets and pink to reddish wood)
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