TURREAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does turreae mean? 

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

1. any of numerous trees and shrubs grown for their beautiful glossy foliage and sweetly fragrant starry flowers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TURREAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous trees and shrubs grown for their beautiful glossy foliage and sweetly fragrant starry flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("turreae" 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 ("turreae" is a member of...):

genus Turreae (genus of trees and shrubs of tropical Africa and Asia and Australia)