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CRATEVA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Crateva mean?
• CRATEVA (noun)
The noun CRATEVA has 1 sense:
1. tropical genus of small trees or shrubs
Familiarity information: CRATEVA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tropical genus of small trees or shrubs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Crateva; genus Crateva
Hypernyms ("Crateva" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Holonyms ("Crateva" is a member of...):
caper family; Capparidaceae; family Capparidaceae (a dilleniid dicot family of the order Rhoeadales that includes: genera Capparis, Cleome, Crateva, and Polanisia)
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