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BUTEA

Dictionary entry overview: What does Butea mean?

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

1. genus of East Indian trees or shrubs: dhak

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

Dictionary entry details

• BUTEA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Genus of East Indian trees or shrubs: dhak

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Butea; genus Butea

Hypernyms ("Butea" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Butea"):

Butea frondosa; Butea monosperma; dak; dhak; palas (East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye)

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

Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)

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