PAYENA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Payena mean? 

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

1. genus of medium to large Malaysian trees yielding gutta-percha

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAYENA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of medium to large Malaysian trees yielding gutta-percha

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Payena; Payena

Hypernyms ("Payena" 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 "Payena"):

gutta-percha tree (one of several East Indian trees yielding gutta-percha)

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

family Sapotaceae; sapodilla family; Sapotaceae (tropical trees or shrubs with milky juice and often edible fleshy fruit)