MYROXYLON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Myroxylon mean? 

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

1. a genus of tropical American trees having pinnate leaves and white flowers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MYROXYLON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of tropical American trees having pinnate leaves and white flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Myroxylon; Myroxylon

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Myroxylon"):

Myroxylon balsamum; Myroxylon toluiferum; tolu balsam tree; tolu tree (medium-sized tropical American tree yielding tolu balsam and a fragrant hard wood used for high-grade furniture and cabinetwork)

Myroxylon balsamum pereirae; Myroxylon pereirae; Peruvian balsam (tree of South and Central America yielding an aromatic balsam)

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

Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)

 Context examples 

The essentail oil of Myroxylon balsamum.

(Balsam Peru Oil, NCI Thesaurus)