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FRANGIPANI

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of various tropical American deciduous shrubs or trees of the genus Plumeria having milky sap and showy fragrant funnel-shaped variously colored flowers

Synonyms:

frangipani; frangipanni

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Nouns denoting plants

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

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "frangipani"):

pagoda tree; Plumeria acutifolia; temple tree (frangipani of India having an erect habit and conical form; grown in temple gardens)

pagoda tree; Plumeria alba; West Indian jasmine (tall sparingly branched conical tree having large fragrant yellow flowers with white centers)

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

genus Plumeria; Plumeria; Plumiera (deciduous shrubs and trees of tropical America having branches like candelabra and fragrant white or pink flowers)

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