QUIRA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quira mean? 

• QUIRA (noun)
  The noun QUIRA has 2 senses:

1. hard heavy red wood of a quira tree

2. any of several tropical American trees some yielding economically important timber

  Familiarity information: QUIRA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUIRA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hard heavy red wood of a quira tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Panama redwood; quira

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

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Holonyms ("quira" is a substance of...):

quira (any of several tropical American trees some yielding economically important timber)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of several tropical American trees some yielding economically important timber

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("quira" 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)

Meronyms (substance of "quira"):

Panama redwood; quira (hard heavy red wood of a quira tree)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "quira"):

Platymiscium trinitatis; roble (large tree of Trinidad and Guyana having odd-pinnate leaves and violet-scented axillary racemes of yellow flowers and long smooth pods; grown as a specimen in parks and large gardens)

Panama redwood; Panama redwood tree; Platymiscium pinnatum (large erect shrub of Colombia having large odd-pinnate leaves with large leaflets and axillary racemes of fragrant yellow flowers)

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

genus Platymiscium; Platymiscium (genus of tropical American trees: quira)