looking-glass plant

looking-glass plant
noun
small tree of coastal regions of Old World tropics whose leaves are silvery beneath
Hypernyms: ↑angiospermous tree, ↑flowering tree

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noun
: an Asiatic tree (Heritiera littoralis) whose leaves are silvery beneath

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