NOUN | plant | Crescentia, genus Crescentia | a genus of tropical American trees of the family Bignoniaceae |
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Meaning | A genus of tropical American trees of the family Bignoniaceae; has a short trunk and crooked limbs and drooping branches. | |
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Synonym | genus Crescentia | |
Member of | Bignoniaceae, family Bignoniaceae | Trees or shrubs or woody vines or herbs having fruit resembling gourds or capsules |
Members | calabash, calabash tree, Crescentia cujete | Tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds |
Broader | asterid dicot genus | genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs |
Spanish | crescentia, genus crescentia | |
Catalan | crescentia, genus crescentia |
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