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ELAEOCARPUS GRANDIS

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

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

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Elaeocarpus grandis" 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 "Elaeocarpus grandis"):

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

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

Holonyms ("Elaeocarpus grandis" is a member of...):

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

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