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COLUBRINA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Colubrina mean? 

COLUBRINA (noun)
  The noun COLUBRINA has 1 sense:

1. mostly tropical American shrubs or small trees with small yellowish flowers and yellow or red fruitsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


COLUBRINA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Mostly tropical American shrubs or small trees with small yellowish flowers and yellow or red fruits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Colubrina; genus Colubrina

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

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Colubrina"):

nakedwood (any of several small to medium-sized trees of Florida and West Indies with thin scaly bark and heavy dark heartwood)

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

buckthorn family; family Rhamnaceae; Rhamnaceae (trees and shrubs usually thorny bearing drupaceous fruit many having medicinal value)


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