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    GENUS PALAQUIUM

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Large genus of Malaysian trees with milky juice and leathery leavesplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Palaquium; Palaquium

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus Palaquium" 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 Palaquium"):

    gutta-percha tree; Palaquium gutta (one of several East Indian trees yielding gutta-percha)

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

    family Sapotaceae; sapodilla family; Sapotaceae (tropical trees or shrubs with milky juice and often edible fleshy fruit)

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