black mangrove

noun

A tree or woody shrub common in swampy salt-water areas along the Atlantic tropical coasts of Africa and South America, extending north into the Pacific tropics, and into the Gulf Coast and South Florida in North America (Avicennia germinans)

Similar
Aegiceras majusAvicennia marina
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Meanings

nounblack mangrove (plural black mangroves)

plural black mangroves

  1. A tree or woody shrub common in swampy salt-water areas along the Atlantic tropical coasts of Africa and South America, extending north into the Pacific tropics, and into the Gulf Coast and South Florida in North America (Avicennia germinans)
  2. AustraliaAegiceras corniculatum
  3. AustraliaBruguiera gymnorhiza
  4. Lumnitzera spp.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounan Australian tree resembling the black mangrove of the West Indies and Florida

Similar
Aegiceras majus
Broader
tree

nouna mangrove of the West Indies and the southern Florida coast; occurs in dense thickets and has numerous short roots that bend up from the ground

Similar
Avicennia marina
Broader
blackwoodblackwood tree

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Dutch parwa
  • parwaAvicennia germinans
German Schwarze Mangrove
  • Schwarze MangroveAvicennia germinans
Portuguese siriúba
  • siriúbaAvicennia germinans
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APA

black mangrove. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/black%20mangrove

MLA

“black mangrove.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/black%20mangrove. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “black mangrove,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/black%20mangrove.

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