YELLOW-LEAF SICKLE PINE

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Meaning:

A rain forest tree or shrub of New Caledonia having a conic crown and pale green sickle-shaped leaves; host species for the rare parasite yew

Synonyms:

Falcatifolium taxoides; yellow-leaf sickle pine

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("yellow-leaf sickle pine" is a kind of...):

conifer; coniferous tree (any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones)

Holonyms ("yellow-leaf sickle pine" is a member of...):

Falcatifolium; genus Falcatifolium (sickle pines: dioecious evergreen tropical trees and shrubs having sickle-shaped leaves; similar to Dacrycarpus in habit; Malaysia and Philippines to New Guinea and New Caledonia)

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