PALAQUIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Palaquium mean? 

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

1. large genus of Malaysian trees with milky juice and leathery leaves

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PALAQUIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large genus of Malaysian trees with milky juice and leathery leaves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Palaquium; Palaquium

Hypernyms ("Palaquium" 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 "Palaquium"):

gutta-percha tree; Palaquium gutta (one of several East Indian trees yielding gutta-percha)

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

family Sapotaceae; sapodilla family; Sapotaceae (tropical trees or shrubs with milky juice and often edible fleshy fruit)