| NOUN | plant | sterculia | any tree of the genus Sterculia |
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| Meaning | Any tree of the genus Sterculia. | |
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| Member of | genus Sterculia | type genus of the Sterculiaceae |
| Narrower | Panama tree, Sterculia apetala | large deciduous tree native to Panama and from which the country takes its name |
| kalumpang, Java olives, Sterculia foetida | large tree of Old World tropics having foul-smelling orange-red blossoms followed by red pods enclosing oil-rich seeds sometimes used as food | |
| Broader | angiospermous tree, flowering tree | Any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary |
| Spanish | sterculia | |
| Catalan | sterculia | |
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