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YELLOWWOOD TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does yellowwood tree mean? 

YELLOWWOOD TREE (noun)
  The noun YELLOWWOOD TREE has 1 sense:

1. any of various trees having yellowish wood or yielding a yellow extractplay

  Familiarity information: YELLOWWOOD TREE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


YELLOWWOOD TREE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various trees having yellowish wood or yielding a yellow extract

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

yellowwood; yellowwood tree

Hypernyms ("yellowwood 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)

Meronyms (substance of "yellowwood tree"):

yellowwood (the yellow wood of any of various yellowwood trees)

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

gymnospermous yellowwood (any of various gymnospermous trees having yellow wood)

angiospermous yellowwood (any of various angiospermous trees having yellow wood)


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