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SIRIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does siris mean?
• SIRIS (noun)
The noun SIRIS has 1 sense:
1. large spreading Old World tree having large leaves and globose clusters of greenish-yellow flowers and long seed pods that clatter in the wind
Familiarity information: SIRIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large spreading Old World tree having large leaves and globose clusters of greenish-yellow flowers and long seed pods that clatter in the wind
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Albizia lebbeck; Albizzia lebbeck; siris; siris tree
Hypernyms ("siris" is a kind of...):
albizia; albizzia (any of numerous trees of the genus Albizia)
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