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CLUSIA ROSEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Clusia rosea mean? 

CLUSIA ROSEA (noun)
  The noun CLUSIA ROSEA has 1 sense:

1. a common tropical American clusia having solitary white or rose flowersplay

  Familiarity information: CLUSIA ROSEA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CLUSIA ROSEA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A common tropical American clusia having solitary white or rose flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Clusia major; Clusia rosea; pitch apple; strangler fig

Hypernyms ("Clusia rosea" is a kind of...):

strangler; strangler tree (an epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree)

Holonyms ("Clusia rosea" is a member of...):

genus Clusia (tropical American aromatic trees or shrubs; often epiphytic; some stranglers)


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