NOUN | plant | Palaquium, genus Palaquium | large genus of Malaysian trees with milky juice and leathery leaves |
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Meaning | large genus of Malaysian trees with milky juice and leathery leaves. | |
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Synonym | genus Palaquium | |
Member of | Sapotaceae, family Sapotaceae, sapodilla family | Tropical trees or shrubs with milky juice and often edible fleshy fruit |
Members | gutta-percha tree, Palaquium gutta | One of several East Indian trees yielding gutta-percha |
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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