black mangrove

noun

1. an Australian tree resembling the black mangrove of the West Indies and Florida

• Syn: ↑Aegiceras majus

• Hypernyms: ↑tree

• Member Holonyms: ↑Aegiceras, ↑genus Aegiceras

2. a mangrove of the West Indies and the southern Florida coast; occurs in dense thickets and has numerous short roots that bend up from the ground

• Syn: ↑Avicennia marina

• Hypernyms: ↑blackwood, ↑blackwood tree

• Member Holonyms: ↑Avicennia, ↑genus Avicennia

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noun

1. : a mangrove (Avicennia marina) of the West Indies and the southern Florida coast that usually occurs in dense thickets and that has numerous short roots that bend up or away from the ground

2. : an Australian plant (Aegiceras majus) of the family Verbenaceae that resembles the black mangrove of the West Indies and Florida

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black mangrove,

blackwood, a small tree of the seacoast marshes of the West Indies and southern Florida.