genus nauclea

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1. small genus of evergreen tropical shrubs or trees with smooth leathery leaves (noun.plant)

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

member holonym	:	nauclea diderrichii, opepe, sarcocephalus diderrichii,
definition	:	large African forest tree yielding a strong hard yellow to golden brown lumber; sometimes placed in genus Sarcocephalus (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	family rubiaceae, madder family, rubiaceae,
definition	:	widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry (noun.plant)