GENUS CORDIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Cordia mean? 

• GENUS CORDIA (noun)
  The noun GENUS CORDIA has 1 sense:

1. tropical deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs of the family Boraginaceae

  Familiarity information: GENUS CORDIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CORDIA (noun)

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Meaning:

Tropical deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs of the family Boraginaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cordia; genus Cordia

Hypernyms ("genus Cordia" 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 "genus Cordia"):

Cordia alliodora; cypre; Equador laurel; princewood; salmwood; Spanish elm (large tropical American tree of the genus Cordia grown for its abundant creamy white flowers and valuable wood)

Cordia gerascanthus; princewood; Spanish elm (tropical American timber tree)

Holonyms ("genus Cordia" is a member of...):

borage family; Boraginaceae; family Boraginaceae (a widely distributed family of plants distinguished by circinate flowers and nutlike fruit)