Sterculia Definition

stʉrkyo͝olēə
adjective
Designating a family (Sterculiaceae) of tropical, dicotyledonous plants (order Malvales), mostly shrubs and trees, including the cacao and cola.
Webster's New World
noun

Any of a a number of tropical trees and shrubs, of the genus Sterculia, many of which bear commercially important, oil-rich seeds.

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pronoun

A taxonomic genus within the subfamily Sterculioideae "” certain foul-smelling tropical and subtropical plants.

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Other Word Forms of Sterculia

Noun

Singular:
sterculia
Plural:
sterculias

Origin of Sterculia

Sterculia Sentence Examples

  • Most important are the Elaeis guineensis, Sterculia acuminata and the wild coffee tree.

  • Of dye-yielding shrubs and plants camwood and indigo may be mentioned; of those whence gum is obtained the copal, acacia and African tragacanth (Sterculia tragacantha).

  • On the Blue Nile the forest trees alter, the most abundant being the babanus (Sudan ebony) and the silag (Anogeissus leiocarpus), while gigantic baobabs, called tebeldi in the Sudan, and tarfa (Sterculia cinerea) are numerous.

  • It is said to be the product of Sterculia urens, a plant of the natural order Sterculiaceae.

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