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SWEET ACACIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sweet acacia mean? 

SWEET ACACIA (noun)
  The noun SWEET ACACIA has 1 sense:

1. tropical American thorny shrub or small tree; fragrant yellow flowers used in making perfumeryplay

  Familiarity information: SWEET ACACIA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SWEET ACACIA (noun)


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Meaning:

Tropical American thorny shrub or small tree; fragrant yellow flowers used in making perfumery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Acacia farnesiana; cassie; flame tree; huisache; mimosa bush; scented wattle; sweet acacia; sweet wattle

Hypernyms ("sweet acacia" is a kind of...):

acacia (any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia)

Holonyms ("sweet acacia" is a member of...):

genus Acacia (large genus of shrubs and trees and some woody vines of Central and South America, Africa, Australia and Polynesia: wattle; mimosa)


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