white mangrove


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Noun1.white mangrove - a small to medium-sized tree growing in brackish water especially along the shores of the southwestern Pacificwhite mangrove - a small to medium-sized tree growing in brackish water especially along the shores of the southwestern Pacific
Avicennia, genus Avicennia - small genus of tropical shrubs or trees
tree - a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
2.white mangrove - shrub to moderately large tree that grows in brackish water along the seacoasts of western Africa and tropical America; locally important as a source of tannin
genus Laguncularia, Laguncularia - a genus of Laguncularia
tree - a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
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It is not the first time steps have been taken to safeguard Bahrain's mangroves, which consist of the Avicennia marina species of mangrove tree, also known as grey mangrove or white mangrove.
The species of mangrove found in Al Zorah is called the Avicennia marina, commonly known as the grey or white mangrove, we are told.
This made me wish we could get imbao (white mangrove clam) in Manila.
In the northwest of Vitoria there is a Municipal Ecological Station named Lameirao Island (EEMIL), where the mangrove covers approximately 92.66% of the Ecological Station, occupying an area of 891.83 hectares and harboring three mangrove plant species: Rhizophora mangle (red mangrove), Laguncularia racemosa (white mangrove) and Avicennia schaueriana (black mangrove or siriuba).
Dyes are a similar case: the 350 specimens are derived from about 170 species, as varied as the bark of white mangrove (Avicennia marina), the leaves of button tree (Anogeissus acuminata), the fruits of yellow myrobalan (Terminalia chebula) and the seed pods and hairs (whole and powdered) of waras (Flemingia grahamiana) along with dyed fabrics (figure 6).
Three species of mangroves are native to Florida: Red Mangrove, Black Mangrove, and White Mangrove.
The plant coverage at the sites corresponds to a mangrove forest, where Rhizophora mangle (red mangrove) is the dominant species, associated with Laguncularia racemosa (white mangrove).
waajur, the blacktail stingray, or marun, the white mangrove. Demiin, on the other hand, uses both primary and secondary lexemes.
The black mangrove (Avicennia germinans, and other species of the same genus) needs periods of 10-110 consecutive days without flooding, while the white mangrove (Laguncularia racemosa and related species) needs almost half a year.