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DACRYDIUM

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Australasian evergreen trees or shrubs

Synonyms:

Dacrydium; genus Dacrydium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

gymnosperm genus (a genus of gymnosperms)

Meronyms (members of "Dacrydium"):

Dacrydium cupressinum; imou pine; red pine; rimu (tall New Zealand timber tree)

Dacrydium colensoi; tar-wood; tarwood (New Zealand silver pine of conical habit with long slender flexuous branches; adapted to cold wet summers and high altitudes)

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

family Podocarpaceae; Podocarpaceae; podocarpus family (gymnosperms with simple persistent needlelike or scalelike leaves)

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