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cecropia

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Noun1.cecropia - large genus of tropical American trees that yield a bast fiber used for cordage and bark used in tanningCecropia - large genus of tropical American trees that yield a bast fiber used for cordage and bark used in tanning; milky juice yields caoutchouc
dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
Cecropiaceae, family Cecropiaceae - in some classifications included in family Moraceae
Cecropia peltata, imbauba, snake wood, trumpet tree, trumpet-wood, trumpetwood - tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems
2.cecropia - North American silkworm mothcecropia - North American silkworm moth; larvae feed on the leaves of forest trees
saturniid, saturniid moth - large brightly colored and usually tropical moth; larvae spin silken cocoons


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As the participants prepare, he washes our hair with a lemon water rinse and burns dry cecropia leaves to relax us in the sweet-scented smoke.
Scientists once thought that three-toed sloths almost exclusively ate the leaves of cecropia trees.
This report drove us to further investigate the cardiovascular effects induced by HSE, since other ACE inhibiting plants, such as Ouratea semiserrata and Cecropia glaziovii, also exhibited strong vasodilator activity (Braga et al.
 
 
 
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