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BUTTON MANGROVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does button mangrove mean? 

BUTTON MANGROVE (noun)
  The noun BUTTON MANGROVE has 1 sense:

1. evergreen tree or shrub with fruit resembling buttons and yielding heavy hard compact woodplay

  Familiarity information: BUTTON MANGROVE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BUTTON MANGROVE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Evergreen tree or shrub with fruit resembling buttons and yielding heavy hard compact wood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

button mangrove; button tree; Conocarpus erectus

Hypernyms ("button mangrove" 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)


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