cecropia

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1. North American silkworm moth; larvae feed on the leaves of forest trees (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	saturniid, saturniid moth,
definition	:	large brightly colored and usually tropical moth; larvae spin silken cocoons (noun.animal)

2. large genus of tropical American trees that yield a bast fiber used for cordage and bark used in tanning; milky juice yields caoutchouc (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus,
definition	:	genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	cecropia peltata, imbauba, snake wood, trumpet tree, trumpet-wood, trumpetwood,
definition	:	tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	cecropiaceae, family cecropiaceae,
definition	:	in some classifications included in family Moraceae (noun.plant)

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