noun
small genus of timber trees of eastern Asia, Australasia and tropical Africa that form large buttresses
• Syn: ↑Heritiera, ↑genus Heritiera, ↑Terrietia
• Hypernyms: ↑dilleniid dicot genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Sterculiaceae, ↑family Sterculiaceae, ↑sterculia family
Useful english dictionary. 2012.