cordia (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *Cordia*:
NOUN	plant	Cordia, genus Cordia	tropical deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs of the family Boraginaceae

English > *Cordia*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	Tropical deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs of the family Boraginaceae.
Synonym	genus Cordia
Member of	Boraginaceae, family Boraginaceae, borage family	A widely distributed family of plants distinguished by circinate flowers and nutlike fruit
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
Members	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
Spanish	cordia, genus cordia
Catalan	cordia, genus cordia

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