HERITIERA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Heritiera mean? 

• HERITIERA (noun)
  The noun HERITIERA has 1 sense:

1. small genus of timber trees of eastern Asia, Australasia and tropical Africa that form large buttresses

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HERITIERA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of timber trees of eastern Asia, Australasia and tropical Africa that form large buttresses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Heritiera; genus Terrietia; Heritiera; Terrietia

Hypernyms ("Heritiera" is a kind of...):

dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

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

family Sterculiaceae; sterculia family; Sterculiaceae (a large family of plants of order Malvales)