STERCULIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sterculia mean? 

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

1. any tree of the genus Sterculia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• STERCULIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any tree of the genus Sterculia

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Nouns denoting plants

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

angiospermous tree; flowering tree (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)

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

Panama tree; Sterculia apetala (large deciduous tree native to Panama and from which the country takes its name; having densely leafy crown and naked trunk)

Java olives; kalumpang; Sterculia foetida (large tree of Old World tropics having foul-smelling orange-red blossoms followed by red pods enclosing oil-rich seeds sometimes used as food)

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

genus Sterculia (type genus of the Sterculiaceae: deciduous or evergreen trees of Old and New World tropics and subtropics)