TREMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Trema mean? 

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

1. an evergreen tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in tropical America and Africa and Asia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TREMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An evergreen tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in tropical America and Africa and Asia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Trema; Trema

Hypernyms ("Trema" 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)

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

elm family; family Ulmaceae; Ulmaceae (a dicot family of the order Urticales including: genera Ulmus, Celtis, Planera, Trema)