English > Cordia: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | Tropical deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs of the family Boraginaceae. |
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| Synonym | genus Cordia |
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| Member of | Boraginaceae, family Boraginaceae, borage family | A widely distributed family of plants distinguished by circinate flowers and nutlike fruit |
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| Members | Spanish elm, Equador laurel, salmwood, cypre, princewood, Cordia alliodora | large tropical American tree of the genus Cordia grown for its abundant creamy white flowers and valuable wood |
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| princewood, Spanish elm, Cordia gerascanthus | Tropical American timber tree |
| Broader | dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
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| Spanish | cordia, genus cordia |
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| Catalan | cordia, genus cordia |
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