HYMENAEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hymenaea mean? 

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

1. genus of tropical American timber trees

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYMENAEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of tropical American timber trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Hymenaea; Hymenaea

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Hymenaea"):

courbaril; Hymenaea courbaril (West Indian locust tree having pinnate leaves and panicles of large white or purplish flowers; yields very hard tough wood)

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

Fabaceae; family Fabaceae; family Leguminosae; legume family; Leguminosae; pea family (a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae)