SILVER TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does silver tree mean? 

• SILVER TREE (noun)
  The noun SILVER TREE has 2 senses:

1. small South African tree with long silvery silky foliage

2. Australian timber tree

  Familiarity information: SILVER TREE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SILVER TREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small South African tree with long silvery silky foliage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Leucadendron argenteum; silver tree

Hypernyms ("silver 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)

Holonyms ("silver tree" is a member of...):

genus Leucadendron; Leucadendron (large genus of evergreen trees and shrubs having silvery white leaves and solitary terminal flowers with conspicuous silvery bracts)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Australian timber tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

silver tree; Tarrietia argyrodendron

Hypernyms ("silver 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)

Holonyms ("silver tree" is a member of...):

genus Tarrietia; Tarrietia (small genus of east Asian and Australian timber trees)