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DIRCA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Dirca mean? 

DIRCA (noun)
  The noun DIRCA has 1 sense:

1. deciduous shrub of North America: leatherwoodplay

  Familiarity information: DIRCA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DIRCA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Deciduous shrub of North America: leatherwood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Dirca; genus Dirca

Hypernyms ("Dirca" 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 "Dirca"):

Dirca palustris; leatherwood; moose-wood; moosewood; ropebark; wicopy (deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers)

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

daphne family; family Thymelaeaceae; Thymelaeaceae (family of trees and shrubs and herbs having tough bark that are found especially in Australia and tropical Africa)


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