NAUCLEA
Dictionary entry overview: What does Nauclea mean? • NAUCLEA (noun)
The noun NAUCLEA has 1 sense:
1. small genus of evergreen tropical shrubs or trees with smooth leathery leaves
Familiarity information: NAUCLEA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• NAUCLEA (noun)
Meaning:
Small genus of evergreen tropical shrubs or trees with smooth leathery leaves
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Nauclea; Nauclea
Hypernyms ("Nauclea" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "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 ("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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