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cativo

cativo noun: prioria copaifera, a flowering tree of Central and South America.

Noun

cativo (plural cativos)

  1. Prioria copaifera, a flowering tree of Central and South America.
    • Thrusting up into the canopy, competing for sunlight with the algarrobo, grew the cativo tree, whose modern descendants grow to 120 feet.1999, George O. Poinar, The Amber Forest: A Reconstruction of a Vanished World, page 15

Forms of cativo

pluralcativos

Questions about cativo

What does cativo mean?
Cativo means prioria copaifera, a flowering tree of Central and South America.
What part of speech is cativo?
Cativo is a noun.
What is the plural of cativo?
The plural of cativo is cativos.

Words near cativo in the dictionary

  1. cationotropy
  2. cations
  3. catios
  4. catitude
  5. catitudes
  6. cativo
  7. cativos
  8. catjang
  9. catjangs
  10. catkin
  11. catkind

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