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    STENOCARPUS SALIGNUS

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish woodplay

    Synonyms:

    beefwood; scrub beefwood; Stenocarpus salignus

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("Stenocarpus salignus" is a kind of...):

    tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

    Meronyms (substance of "Stenocarpus salignus"):

    beefwood (any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork)

    Holonyms ("Stenocarpus salignus" is a member of...):

    genus Stenocarpus; Stenocarpus (small genus of timber trees; Australia to Malaysia)

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