WHITE MANGROVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does white mangrove mean? 

• WHITE MANGROVE (noun)
  The noun WHITE MANGROVE has 2 senses:

1. a small to medium-sized tree growing in brackish water especially along the shores of the southwestern Pacific

2. shrub to moderately large tree that grows in brackish water along the seacoasts of western Africa and tropical America; locally important as a source of tannin

  Familiarity information: WHITE MANGROVE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHITE MANGROVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small to medium-sized tree growing in brackish water especially along the shores of the southwestern Pacific

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Avicennia officinalis; white mangrove

Hypernyms ("white mangrove" 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 ("white mangrove" is a member of...):

Avicennia; genus Avicennia (small genus of tropical shrubs or trees)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Shrub to moderately large tree that grows in brackish water along the seacoasts of western Africa and tropical America; locally important as a source of tannin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Laguncularia racemosa; white mangrove

Hypernyms ("white mangrove" 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 ("white mangrove" is a member of...):

genus Laguncularia; Laguncularia (a genus of Laguncularia)