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GENUS CECROPIA

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Meaning:

Large genus of tropical American trees that yield a bast fiber used for cordage and bark used in tanning; milky juice yields caoutchouc

Synonyms:

Cecropia; genus Cecropia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "genus Cecropia"):

Cecropia peltata; imbauba; snake wood; trumpet-wood; trumpet tree; trumpetwood (tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems)

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

Cecropiaceae; family Cecropiaceae (in some classifications included in family Moraceae)

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