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GENUS TRIPLOCHITON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Triplochiton mean?
• GENUS TRIPLOCHITON (noun)
The noun GENUS TRIPLOCHITON has 1 sense:
1. small genus of tropical African trees with maplelike leaves
Familiarity information: GENUS TRIPLOCHITON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small genus of tropical African trees with maplelike leaves
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Triplochiton; Triplochiton
Hypernyms ("genus Triplochiton" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Triplochiton"):
arere; obeche; obechi; samba; Triplochiton scleroxcylon (large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood)
Holonyms ("genus Triplochiton" is a member of...):
family Sterculiaceae; sterculia family; Sterculiaceae (a large family of plants of order Malvales)
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