BUTEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Butea mean? 

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

1. genus of East Indian trees or shrubs: dhak

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUTEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of East Indian trees or shrubs: dhak

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Butea; genus Butea

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Butea"):

Butea frondosa; Butea monosperma; dak; dhak; palas (East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye)

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

Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)