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CRESCENTIA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A genus of tropical American trees of the family Bignoniaceae; has a short trunk and crooked limbs and drooping branches

Synonyms:

Crescentia; genus Crescentia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "Crescentia"):

calabash; calabash tree; Crescentia cujete (tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds)

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

Bignoniaceae; family Bignoniaceae (trees or shrubs or woody vines or herbs having fruit resembling gourds or capsules; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales)

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