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    GENUS COLUBRINA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Mostly tropical American shrubs or small trees with small yellowish flowers and yellow or red fruitsplay

    Synonyms:

    Colubrina; genus Colubrina

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus Colubrina" 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 Colubrina"):

    nakedwood (any of several small to medium-sized trees of Florida and West Indies with thin scaly bark and heavy dark heartwood)

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

    buckthorn family; family Rhamnaceae; Rhamnaceae (trees and shrubs usually thorny bearing drupaceous fruit many having medicinal value)

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