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Definitions of cecropia in various dictionaries:
noun - large genus of tropical American trees that yield a bast fiber used for cordage and bark used in tanning
noun - North American silkworm moth
noun - a large North American moth
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| A silkworm moth, Hyalophora cecropia, native to North America, having red white and black markings |
| a fast-growing tropical American tree which is typically among the first to colonize a cleared area. |
| A fast-growing tropical American tree which is typically among the first to colonize a cleared area. |
| A very large North American silk moth with boldly marked reddish-brown wings. |
| North American silkworm moth larvae feed on the leaves of forest trees |
| large genus of tropical American trees that yield a bast fiber used for cordage and bark used in tanning milky juice yields caoutchouc |
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Cecropia is a Neotropical genus consisting of sixty-one recognized species with a highly distinctive lineage of dioecious trees. * The genus consists of pioneer trees in the more or less humid parts of the Neotropics, with the majority of the species being myrmecophytic. Berg and Rosselli state that the genus is characterized by some unusual traits: spathes fully enclosing the flower-bearing parts of the inflorescences until anthesis, patches of dense indumentums (trichilia) producing Mullerian (food) at the base of the petiole, and anthers becoming detached at anthesis. Cecropia is most studied for its ecological role and association with ants. Its classification is controversial; in the past it has been placed in the Cecropiaceae, Moraceae (the mulberry family), or Urticaceae (the nettle family). The modern Angiosperm Phylogeny Group system places the "cecropiacean" group in the Urticaceae. * The genus is native to the American tropics, where it is one of the most recognizable compone |