genus crescentia

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   a genus of tropical American trees of the family Bignoniaceae; has a short trunk and crooked limbs and drooping branches

   SynonymsCrescentia

   Broaderasterid dicot genus

   Part ofBignoniaceae

Questions about genus crescentia

What does genus crescentia mean?

genus crescentia means "a genus of tropical American trees of the family Bignoniaceae; has a short trunk and crooked limbs and drooping branches".

What is another word for genus crescentia?

Close synonyms include Crescentia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is genus crescentia a common word?

genus crescentia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.