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JACARANDA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does jacaranda mean?
• JACARANDA (noun)
The noun JACARANDA has 1 sense:
1. an important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with black
Familiarity information: JACARANDA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with black
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Brazilian rosewood; caviuna wood; Dalbergia nigra; jacaranda
Hypernyms ("jacaranda" is a kind of...):
rosewood; rosewood tree (any of those hardwood trees of the genus Dalbergia that yield rosewood--valuable cabinet woods of a dark red or purplish color streaked and variegated with black)
Holonyms ("jacaranda" is a member of...):
Dalbergia; genus Dalbergia (large genus of tropical trees having pinnate leaves and paniculate flowers and cultivated commercially for their dramatically grained and colored timbers)
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