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GENUS NAUCLEA

• GENUS NAUCLEA (noun)
The noun GENUS NAUCLEA has 1 sense:

1. small genus of evergreen tropical shrubs or trees with smooth leathery leaves

Familiarity information: GENUS NAUCLEA used as a noun is very rare.

• GENUS NAUCLEA (noun)

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Meaning:

Small genus of evergreen tropical shrubs or trees with smooth leathery leaves

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Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Nauclea; Nauclea

Hypernyms ("genus Nauclea" is a kind of...):

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "genus Nauclea"):

Nauclea diderrichii; opepe; Sarcocephalus diderrichii (large African forest tree yielding a strong hard yellow to golden brown lumber; sometimes placed in genus Sarcocephalus)

Holonyms ("genus Nauclea" is a member of...):

family Rubiaceae; madder family; Rubiaceae (widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry)

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