FRANGIPANNI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does frangipanni mean? 

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

1. any of various tropical American deciduous shrubs or trees of the genus Plumeria having milky sap and showy fragrant funnel-shaped variously colored flowers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRANGIPANNI (noun)

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Meaning:

Any of various tropical American deciduous shrubs or trees of the genus Plumeria having milky sap and showy fragrant funnel-shaped variously colored flowers

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Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

frangipani; frangipanni

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

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "frangipanni"):

pagoda tree; Plumeria acutifolia; temple tree (frangipani of India having an erect habit and conical form; grown in temple gardens)

pagoda tree; Plumeria alba; West Indian jasmine (tall sparingly branched conical tree having large fragrant yellow flowers with white centers)

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

genus Plumeria; Plumeria; Plumiera (deciduous shrubs and trees of tropical America having branches like candelabra and fragrant white or pink flowers)