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Torreya

noun

nutmeg-yews

• Syn: ↑genus Torreya

• Hypernyms: ↑gymnosperm genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Cephalotaxaceae, ↑family Cephalotaxaceae, ↑plum-yew family

• Member Meronyms:

↑California nutmeg, ↑nutmeg-yew, ↑Torreya californica, ↑stinking cedar, ↑stinking yew, ↑Torrey tree, ↑Torreya taxifolia

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\\ˈtȯrēə\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, after John Torrey died 1873 American botanist and chemist

: a genus of Asiatic and No. American trees (family Taxaceae) having two-ranked often ill-scented linear leaves and a large ovoid fruit resembling a drupe but being actually a large seed surrounded by a fleshy aril — see california nutmeg, stinking cedar

Useful english dictionary. 2012.