ANGIOSPERMOUS TREE

 Dictionary entry overview: What does angiospermous tree mean? 

• ANGIOSPERMOUS TREE (noun)
  The noun ANGIOSPERMOUS TREE has 1 sense:

1. any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANGIOSPERMOUS TREE (noun)

Meaning:

Any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

angiospermous tree; flowering tree

Hypernyms ("angiospermous 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)

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

spice tree (tree bearing aromatic bark or berries)

bastard lignum vitae; Guaiacum sanctum (small evergreen tree of the southern United States and West Indies a source of lignum vitae wood)

Guaiacum officinale; lignum vitae (small evergreen tree of Caribbean and southern Central America to northern South America; a source of lignum vitae wood, hardest of commercial timbers, and a medicinal resin)

Bulnesia sarmienti; palo santo (South American tree of dry interior regions of Argentina and Paraguay having resinous heartwood used for incense)

ailanthus (any of several deciduous Asian trees of the genus Ailanthus)

mountain ash (any of various trees of the genus Sorbus)

fruit tree (tree bearing edible fruit)

cherry laurel; laurel cherry; mock orange; Prunus caroliniana; wild orange (small flowering evergreen tree of southern United States)

Cercis canadenis; redbud (small shrubby tree of eastern North America similar to the Judas tree having usually pink flowers; found in damp sheltered underwood)

Circis siliquastrum; Judas tree; love tree (small tree of the eastern Mediterranean having abundant purplish-red flowers growing on old wood directly from stems and appearing before the leaves: widely cultivated in mild regions; wood valuable for veneers)

Delonix regia; flamboyant; flame tree; peacock flower; Poinciana regia; royal poinciana (showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana)

Bauhinia variegata; mountain ebony; orchid tree (small East Indian tree having orchidlike flowers and hard dark wood)

Cecropia peltata; imbauba; snake wood; trumpet tree; trumpet-wood; trumpetwood (tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems)

poplar; poplar tree (any of numerous trees of north temperate regions having light soft wood and flowers borne in catkins)

buckwheat tree; Cliftonia monophylla; titi (tree of low-lying coastal areas of southeastern United States having glossy leaves and racemes of fragrant white flowers)

maple (any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone)

nut tree (tree bearing edible nuts)

cornel; dogwood; dogwood tree (a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers)

Aleurites fordii; tung; tung tree; tung-oil tree (Chinese tree bearing seeds that yield tung oil)

Aleurites moluccana; candlenut; varnish tree (large tree native to southeastern Asia; the nuts yield oil used in varnishes; nut kernels strung together are used locally as candles)

caoutchouc tree; Hevea brasiliensis; para rubber tree (deciduous tree of the Amazon and Orinoco Rivers having leathery leaves and fragrant yellow-white flowers; the rubber tree usually cultivated in plantations; chief source of Para rubber)

Jatropha curcus; physic nut (small tropical American tree yielding purple dye and a tanning extract and bearing physic nuts containing a purgative oil that is poisonous in large quantities)

Cordia alliodora; cypre; Equador laurel; princewood; salmwood; Spanish elm (large tropical American tree of the genus Cordia grown for its abundant creamy white flowers and valuable wood)

silver bell (any of various deciduous trees of the genus Halesia having white bell-shaped flowers)

caimitillo; Chrysophyllum oliviforme; damson plum; satin leaf; satinleaf (tropical American timber tree with dark hard heavy wood and small plumlike purple fruit)

Aesculus hippocastanum; buckeye; horse chestnut (tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds)

Pistacia terebinthus; terebinth (a Mediterranean tree yielding Chian turpentine)

holly (any tree or shrub of the genus Ilex having red berries and shiny evergreen leaves with prickly edges)

Broussonetia papyrifera; paper mulberry (shrubby Asiatic tree having bark (tapa) that resembles cloth; grown as a shade tree in Europe and America; male flowers are pendulous catkins and female are urn-shaped followed by small orange-red aggregate berries)

Pipturus albidus (Hawaiian tree of genus Pipturus having a bark (tapa) from which tapa cloth is made)

sterculia (any tree of the genus Sterculia)

balsa; Ochroma lagopus (forest tree of lowland Central America having a strong very light wood; used for making floats and rafts and in crafts)

Bombay ceiba; Ceiba pentandra; ceiba tree; God tree; kapok; silk-cotton tree; white silk-cotton tree (massive tropical tree with deep ridges on its massive trunk and bearing large pods of seeds covered with silky floss; source of the silky kapok fiber)

Adansonia digitata; baobab; monkey-bread tree (African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread)

Adansonia gregorii; cream-of-tartar tree; sour gourd (Australian tree having an agreeably acid fruit that resembles a gourd)

bocconia; Bocconia frutescens; tree celandine (small Central American tree having loose racemes of purple-tinted green flowers)

canary whitewood; Liriodendron tulipifera; tulip poplar; tulip tree; yellow poplar (tall North American deciduous timber tree having large tulip-shaped greenish yellow flowers and conelike fruit; yields soft white woods used especially for cabinet work)

genus Manglietia; manglietia (a genus of flowering tree of the family Magnoliaceae found from Malay to southern China)

magnolia (any shrub or tree of the genus Magnolia; valued for their longevity and exquisite fragrant blooms)

laurel (any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family)

Cercidiphyllum japonicum; katsura tree (rapidly growing deciduous tree of low mountainsides of China and Japan; grown as an ornamental for its dark blue-green candy-scented foliage that becomes yellow to scarlet in autumn)

Cananga odorata; ilang-ilang; ylang-ylang (evergreen Asian tree with aromatic greenish-yellow flowers yielding a volatile oil; widely grown in the tropics as an ornamental)

booyong; brown oak; crow's foot; Heritiera trifoliolata; red beech; silky elm; stave wood; Terrietia trifoliolata (large tree of Australasia)

Heritiera macrophylla; looking glass tree (large evergreen tree of India and Burma whose leaves are silvery beneath)

Heritiera littoralis; looking-glass plant (small tree of coastal regions of Old World tropics whose leaves are silvery beneath)

gamboge tree; Garcinia cambogia; Garcinia gummi-gutta; Garcinia hanburyi (low spreading tree of Indonesia yielding an orange to brown gum resin (gamboge) used as a pigment when powdered)

dillenia (any of several evergreen trees or shrubs of the genus Dillenia grown for their foliage and nodding flowers resembling magnolias which are followed by fruit that is used in curries and jellies and preserves)

mangrove; Rhizophora mangle (a tropical tree or shrub bearing fruit that germinates while still on the tree and having numerous prop roots that eventually form an impenetrable mass and are important in land building)

myrtle (any evergreen shrub or tree of the genus Myrtus)

myrtaceous tree (trees and shrubs)

Lagerstroemia speciosa; pride-of-India; Queen's crape myrtle (native to Asia, Australia, and East Indies, where it provides timber called pyinma; used elsewhere as an ornamental for its large showy flowers)

bush willow; Combretum erythrophyllum (small South African tree having creamy yellow fragrant flowers usually growing on stream banks)

bush willow; Combretum appiculatum (small deciduous tree of the Transvaal having spikes of yellow flowers)

iron tree; iron-tree; ironwood; ironwood tree (a small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape)

Oxydendrum arboreum; sorrel tree; sourwood; titi (deciduous shrubby tree of eastern North America having deeply fissured bark and sprays of small fragrant white flowers and sour-tasting leaves)

New Zealand honeysuckle; rewa-rewa (slender elegant tree of New Zealand having racemes of red flowers and yielding valuable mottled red timber)

cacao; cacao tree; chocolate tree; Theobroma cacao (tropical American tree producing cacao beans)

Holonyms ("angiospermous tree" is a member of...):

Angiospermae; Anthophyta; class Angiospermae; division Anthophyta; division Magnoliophyta; Magnoliophyta (comprising flowering plants that produce seeds enclosed in an ovary; in some systems considered a class (Angiospermae) and in others a division (Magnoliophyta or Anthophyta))