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SILVER QUANDONG TREE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does silver quandong tree mean?
• SILVER QUANDONG TREE (noun)
The noun SILVER QUANDONG TREE has 1 sense:
1. Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
Familiarity information: SILVER QUANDONG TREE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
blue fig; Brisbane quandong; Elaeocarpus grandis; quandong; quandong tree; silver quandong tree
Hypernyms ("silver quandong 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)
Meronyms (parts of "silver quandong tree"):
silver quandong (pale easily worked timber from the quandong tree)
blue fig; quandong (the fruit of the Brisbane quandong tree)
Holonyms ("silver quandong tree" is a member of...):
Elaeocarpus; genus Elaeocarpus (type genus of the family Elaeocarpaceae)
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