CEPHALOTAXUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cephalotaxus mean? 

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

1. the genus of Cephalotaxus (see plum-yews)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CEPHALOTAXUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The genus of Cephalotaxus (see plum-yews)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cephalotaxus; genus Cephalotaxus

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

gymnosperm genus (a genus of gymnosperms)

Meronyms (members of "Cephalotaxus"):

plum-yew (any of several evergreen trees and shrubs of eastern Asia resembling yew and having large seeds enclosed in a fleshy envelope; sometimes cultivated as ornamentals)

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

Cephalotaxaceae; family Cephalotaxaceae; plum-yew family (a family of Cephalotaxaceae)

 Context examples 

A semisynthetic formulation of the cytotoxic plant alkaloid homoharringtonine isolated from the evergreen tree Cephalotaxus with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Omacetaxine mepesuccinate, NCI Thesaurus)