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    BLUE FIG

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruitplay

    Synonyms:

    blue fig; Brisbane quandong; Elaeocarpus grandis; quandong; quandong tree; silver quandong tree

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("blue fig" 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)

    Meronyms (parts of "blue fig"):

    silver quandong (pale easily worked timber from the quandong tree)

    blue fig; quandong (the fruit of the Brisbane quandong tree)

    Holonyms ("blue fig" is a member of...):

    Elaeocarpus; genus Elaeocarpus (type genus of the family Elaeocarpaceae)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    The fruit of the Brisbane quandong treeplay

    Synonyms:

    blue fig; quandong

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("blue fig" is a kind of...):

    fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)

    Holonyms ("blue fig" is a part of...):

    blue fig; Brisbane quandong; Elaeocarpus grandis; quandong; quandong tree; silver quandong tree (Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit)

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