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COLUBRINA

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Meaning:

Mostly tropical American shrubs or small trees with small yellowish flowers and yellow or red fruits

Synonyms:

Colubrina; genus Colubrina

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Colubrina" is a kind of...):

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Colubrina"):

nakedwood (any of several small to medium-sized trees of Florida and West Indies with thin scaly bark and heavy dark heartwood)

Holonyms ("Colubrina" is a member of...):

buckthorn family; family Rhamnaceae; Rhamnaceae (trees and shrubs usually thorny bearing drupaceous fruit many having medicinal value)

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