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    GENUS CRESCENTIA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A genus of tropical American trees of the family Bignoniaceae; has a short trunk and crooked limbs and drooping branchesplay

    Synonyms:

    Crescentia; genus Crescentia

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    Nouns denoting plants

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

    asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Crescentia"):

    calabash; calabash tree; Crescentia cujete (tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds)

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

    Bignoniaceae; family Bignoniaceae (trees or shrubs or woody vines or herbs having fruit resembling gourds or capsules; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales)

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