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SLOANEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sloanea mean? 

SLOANEA (noun)
  The noun SLOANEA has 1 sense:

1. genus of tropical hardwood timber treesplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


SLOANEA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of tropical hardwood timber trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Sloanea; Sloanea

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Sloanea"):

break-axe; breakax; breakaxe; Sloanea jamaicensis (West Indian timber tree having very hard wood)

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

Elaeocarpaceae; elaeocarpus family; family Elaeocarpaceae (genus of trees and shrubs widely distributed in warm regions some yielding useful timber; in some classifications included in the family Santalaceae)


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