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BRAZILIAN PEPPER TREE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Brazilian pepper tree mean?
• BRAZILIAN PEPPER TREE (noun)
The noun BRAZILIAN PEPPER TREE has 1 sense:
1. small Brazilian evergreen resinous tree or shrub having dark green leaflets and white flowers followed by bright red fruit; used as a street tree and lawn specimen
Familiarity information: BRAZILIAN PEPPER TREE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BRAZILIAN PEPPER TREE (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small Brazilian evergreen resinous tree or shrub having dark green leaflets and white flowers followed by bright red fruit; used as a street tree and lawn specimen
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Brazilian pepper tree; Schinus terebinthifolius
Hypernyms ("Brazilian pepper tree" 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)
Holonyms ("Brazilian pepper tree" is a member of...):
genus Schinus; Schinus (genus of evergreen shrubs and trees of tropical and subtropical regions of South and Central America and Canary Islands and China)
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