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Payena

noun

genus of medium to large Malaysian trees yielding gutta-percha

• Syn: ↑genus Payena

• Hypernyms: ↑dicot genus, ↑magnoliopsid genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Sapotaceae, ↑family Sapotaceae, ↑sapodilla family

• Member Meronyms: ↑gutta-percha tree

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\\pāˈyēnə\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, after Anselme Payen died 1871 French chemist and botanical writer

: a genus of Malayan trees (family Sapotaceae) of medium to very large size having fascicled flowers growing at or near the leaf axils, bearing fruit with one or two endospermous seeds, and yielding gutta-percha

Useful english dictionary. 2012.