mangrove : Idioms & Phrases


black mangrove

  • noun an Australian tree resembling the black mangrove of the West Indies and Florida
    Aegiceras majus.
  • noun 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
    Avicennia marina.
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button mangrove

  • noun evergreen tree or shrub with fruit resembling buttons and yielding heavy hard compact wood
    button tree; Conocarpus erectus.
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mangrove family

  • noun trees and shrubs that usually form dense jungles along tropical seacoasts
    Rhizophoraceae; family Rhizophoraceae.
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mangrove snapper

  • noun found in shallow waters off the coast of Florida
    grey snapper; Lutjanus griseus; gray snapper.
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white mangrove

  • noun a small to medium-sized tree growing in brackish water especially along the shores of the southwestern Pacific
    Avicennia officinalis.
  • noun shrub to moderately large tree that grows in brackish water along the seacoasts of western Africa and tropical America; locally important as a source of tannin
    Laguncularia racemosa.
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