Palaquium

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Palaquium - large genus of Malaysian trees with milky juice and leathery leavesgenus Palaquiumdicot genus, magnoliopsid genus - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germinationfamily Sapotaceae, sapodilla family, Sapotaceae - tropical trees or shrubs with milky juice and often edible fleshy fruitPalaquium gutta, gutta-percha tree - one of several East Indian trees yielding gutta-percha