sterculia

Other forms: sterculias

Definitions of sterculia

1. noun

   any tree of the genus Sterculia
   types:

   Panama tree, Sterculia apetala

   large deciduous tree native to Panama and from which the country takes its name; having densely leafy crown and naked trunk

   Java olives, Sterculia foetida, kalumpang

   large tree of Old World tropics having foul-smelling orange-red blossoms followed by red pods enclosing oil-rich seeds sometimes used as food

   type of:

   angiospermous tree, flowering tree

   any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary