Akademik

Salvadora

noun

genus of evergreen trees or shrubs; fruit is a drupe; grows in Africa through Arabia to India and China

• Syn: ↑genus Salvadora

• Hypernyms: ↑dicot genus, ↑magnoliopsid genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Salvadoraceae, ↑family Salvadoraceae, ↑Salvadora family

• Member Meronyms: ↑toothbrush tree, ↑mustard tree, ↑Salvadora persica

* * *

\\ˌsalvəˈdōrə, -dȯrə\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, after Juan Salvador died 1681 Spanish botanist

: a genus (the type of the family Salvadoraceae) of trees and shrubs of Africa and southern Asia having opposite leaves and small panicled flowers with a bell-shaped corolla — see toothbrush tree

Useful english dictionary. 2012.