Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a genus of plants, natural order Guttiferœ.
- noun In zoology, a genus of rugose stone-corals, of the family Cyathophyllidœ.
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- noun genus of tropical evergreen trees
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Examples
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The explorers referred to the belt of magnificent calophyllum trees along the margin of the south-west beach, and Mr Dalrymple thus describes a vegetable wonder --
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"The third tier will be made up of a thick cover of trees like casuarina, calophyllum and honge (pongamia pinnata)."
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"The third tier will be made up of a thick cover of trees like casuarina, calophyllum and honge (pongamia pinnata)."
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"The calophyllum seeds are carried by the river and many of them can be found on the beach, where they grow easily," he said.
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"In January's rainy season we will plant 2,000 pandanus and 1,000 calophyllum trees along the coast as a barrier against the wind," Permasi head Soetadi Prawiro said recently.
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Local residents have provided the pandanus and calophyllum seedlings.
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They collected the young pandanus plants in the Wediombo area, while the calophyllum seedlings mostly come from seeds found on the beach.
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"The calophyllum seeds are carried by the river and many of them can be found on the beach, where they grow easily," he said.
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They collected the young pandanus plants in the Wediombo area, while the calophyllum seedlings mostly come from seeds found on the beach.
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(_calophyllum inophyllum_ -- Linn.), which is probably the tree referred to in the text.
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