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    BENDY TREE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Pantropical tree of usually seacoasts sometimes cultivated as an ornamental for its rounded heart-shaped leaves and showy yellow and purple flowers; yields valuable pink to dark red close-grained wood and oil from its seedsplay

    Synonyms:

    bendy tree; portia tree; seaside mahoe; Thespesia populnea

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("bendy tree" is a kind of...):

    tulipwood tree (any of various trees yielding variously colored woods similar to true tulipwood)

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

    genus Thespesia; Thespesia (a small genus of tropical trees including the portia tree)

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