GENUS ARENGA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Arenga mean? 

• GENUS ARENGA (noun)
  The noun GENUS ARENGA has 1 sense:

1. a genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm trees

  Familiarity information: GENUS ARENGA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS ARENGA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Arenga; genus Arenga

Hypernyms ("genus Arenga" is a kind of...):

plant genus (a genus of plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Arenga"):

Arenga pinnata; gomuti; gomuti palm; sugar palm (Malaysian feather palm with base densely clothed with fibers; yields a sweet sap used in wine and trunk pith yields sago)

Holonyms ("genus Arenga" is a member of...):

Arecaceae; family Arecaceae; family Palmaceae; family Palmae; palm family; Palmaceae; Palmae (chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves; coextensive with the order Palmales)