ELEPHANT TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does elephant tree mean? 

• ELEPHANT TREE (noun)
  The noun ELEPHANT TREE has 1 sense:

1. small tree or shrub of the southwestern United States having a spicy odor and odd-pinnate leaves and small clusters of white flowers

  Familiarity information: ELEPHANT TREE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELEPHANT TREE (noun)

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Meaning:

Small tree or shrub of the southwestern United States having a spicy odor and odd-pinnate leaves and small clusters of white flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Bursera microphylla; elephant tree

Hypernyms ("elephant tree" is a kind of...):

incense tree (any of various tropical trees of the family Burseraceae yielding fragrant gums or resins that are burned as incense)

Holonyms ("elephant tree" is a member of...):

Bursera; genus Bursera (type genus of Burseraceae; tropical and subtropical American shrubs and trees some yielding timber and gum elemi)