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    GENUS BUTEA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Genus of East Indian trees or shrubs: dhakplay

    Synonyms:

    Butea; genus Butea

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus Butea" is a kind of...):

    rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Butea"):

    Butea frondosa; Butea monosperma; dak; dhak; palas (East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye)

    Holonyms ("genus Butea" is a member of...):

    Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)

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