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Calycophyllum

noun

medium to large tropical American trees having shiny reddish-brown shredding bark

• Syn: ↑genus Calycophyllum

• Hypernyms: ↑asterid dicot genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Rubiaceae, ↑family Rubiaceae, ↑madder family

• Member Meronyms: ↑dagame, ↑lemonwood tree, ↑Calycophyllum candidissimum

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\\ˌ ̷ ̷lə̇kōˈfiləm\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from calyc- + -phyllum

: a genus of tropical American trees (family Rubiaceae) of medium to large size characterized by smooth shiny reddish or brown shredding bark — see dagame

Useful english dictionary. 2012.