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BUTEA

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Meaning:

Genus of East Indian trees or shrubs: dhak

Synonyms:

Butea; genus Butea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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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