crescentia

English Thesaurus

1. a genus of tropical American trees of the family Bignoniaceae; has a short trunk and crooked limbs and drooping branches (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	asterid dicot genus,
definition	:	genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	calabash, calabash tree, crescentia cujete,
definition	:	tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	bignoniaceae, family bignoniaceae,
definition	:	trees or shrubs or woody vines or herbs having fruit resembling gourds or capsules; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales (noun.plant)