n. A genus of plants, of the natural order Meliaceæ, allied to the mahogany, and consisting of large trees, natives of the tropics.
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n. tropical American trees
Word Usage
"The fleets which sail from this port and which are partly constructed of the cedrela and the mahogany of the island of Cuba, might, at the entrance of the Mexican"