Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cecropia

2 senses of cecropia

Sense 1
Cecropia, genus Cecropia -- (large genus of tropical American trees that yield a bast fiber used for cordage and bark used in tanning; milky juice yields caoutchouc)
       => dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus -- (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Sense 2
cecropia, cecropia moth, Hyalophora cecropia -- (North American silkworm moth; larvae feed on the leaves of forest trees)
       => saturniid, saturniid moth -- (large brightly colored and usually tropical moth; larvae spin silken cocoons)