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    GENUS TECTONA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Small genus of southeastern Asian tropics: teakplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Tectona; Tectona

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "genus Tectona"):

    teak; Tectona grandis (tall East Indian timber tree now planted in western Africa and tropical America for its hard durable wood)

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

    family Verbenaceae; verbena family; Verbenaceae; vervain family (family of New World tropical and subtropical herbs and shrubs and trees)

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