| NOUN | plant | Alstonia, genus Alstonia | genus of evergreen trees or shrubs with white funnel-shaped flowers and milky sap |
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| Meaning | genus of evergreen trees or shrubs with white funnel-shaped flowers and milky sap; tropical Africa to southeastern Asia and Polynesia. | |
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| Synonym | genus Alstonia | |
| Member of | Apocynaceae, family Apocynaceae, dogbane family | chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers |
| Members | dita, dita bark, devil tree, Alstonia scholaris | evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes |
| Broader | dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
| Spanish | alstonia, genus alstonia | |
| Catalan | alstonia, genus alstonia | |
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