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SALVADORA

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Meaning:

Genus of evergreen trees or shrubs; fruit is a drupe; grows in Africa through Arabia to India and China

Synonyms:

genus Salvadora; Salvadora

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Salvadora" 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 "Salvadora"):

mustard tree; Salvadora persica; toothbrush tree (glabrous or pubescent evergreen shrub or tree of the genus Salvadora; twigs are fibrous and in some parts of the world are bound together in clusters and used as a toothbrush; shoots are used as camel fodder; plant ash provides salt)

Holonyms ("Salvadora" is a member of...):

family Salvadoraceae; Salvadora family; Salvadoraceae (a family of Old World shrubs and trees of order Gentianales; related to Oleaceae but having four stamens and four petals)

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