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
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\\ˌsalvəˈdōrə, -dȯrə\ nounUsage: capitalized
: 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.