payena (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *Payena*:
NOUN	plant	Payena, genus Payena	genus of medium to large Malaysian trees yielding gutta-percha

English > *Payena*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	genus of medium to large Malaysian trees yielding gutta-percha.
Synonym	genus Payena
Member of	Sapotaceae, family Sapotaceae, sapodilla family	Tropical trees or shrubs with milky juice and often edible fleshy fruit
Members	gutta-percha tree	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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