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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ster•cu•li•a (stûr kyo̅o̅′lē ə),USA pronunciation n. - Plant Biologyany of various tropical trees of the genus Sterculia, of which some species are grown as ornamentals and some are the source of commercially valuable wood.
- Neo-Latin, equivalent. to Latin Stercul(us) a Roman deity supposed to have invented manuring (derivative of stercus manure, excrement) + ia -ia; from the fetid odor of the blossoms of certain species
- 1765–75
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