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NAUCLEA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small genus of evergreen tropical shrubs or trees with smooth leathery leaves
Synonyms:
genus Nauclea; Nauclea
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Nauclea" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "Nauclea"):
Nauclea diderrichii; opepe; Sarcocephalus diderrichii (large African forest tree yielding a strong hard yellow to golden brown lumber; sometimes placed in genus Sarcocephalus)
Holonyms ("Nauclea" is a member of...):
family Rubiaceae; madder family; Rubiaceae (widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry)
