MILLETTIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does millettia mean? 

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

1. any of several tropical trees or shrubs yielding showy streaked dark reddish or chocolate-colored wood

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILLETTIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several tropical trees or shrubs yielding showy streaked dark reddish or chocolate-colored wood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

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

genus Millettia (genus of trees and shrubs of the Old World tropics)