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FALCATIFOLIUM

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Sickle pines: dioecious evergreen tropical trees and shrubs having sickle-shaped leaves; similar to Dacrycarpus in habit; Malaysia and Philippines to New Guinea and New Caledonia

Synonyms:

Falcatifolium; genus Falcatifolium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

gymnosperm genus (a genus of gymnosperms)

Meronyms (members of "Falcatifolium"):

common sickle pine; Falcatifolium falciforme (small tropical rain forest tree of Indonesia and Malaysia)

Falcatifolium taxoides; yellow-leaf sickle pine (a rain forest tree or shrub of New Caledonia having a conic crown and pale green sickle-shaped leaves; host species for the rare parasite yew)

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

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

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