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ilang-ilang
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun ilang-ilang has 2 senses
- ilang-ilang(n = noun.plant) Array - oil distilled from flowers of the ilang-ilang tree; used in perfumery; Array is a kind of essential oil, volatile oil
- ilang-ilang(n = noun.plant) cananga odorata, ylang-ylang - evergreen Asian tree with aromatic greenish-yellow flowers yielding a volatile oil; widely grown in the tropics as an ornamental; Array is a member of cananga, canangium, genus cananga, genus canangium
is a kind of angiospermous tree, flowering tree
CIDE DICTIONARY
ilang-ilang, n.
- An oil distilled from flowers of the ilang-ilang tree, used in perfumery. [WordNet 1.5]
- An evergreen Asian tree (
Cananga odorata ) with aromatic greenish-yellow flowers yielding a volatile oil; widely grown in the tropics as an ornamental. [WordNet 1.5]
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