Any mangrove of the genus Rhizophora, esp. (more fully red mangle) the red mangrove, R. mangle (also mangle-tree); any of certain other mangroves…

In generic use: any of various trees and shrubs, chiefly species of the genera Rhizophora and Bruguiera (family Rhizophoraceae), Avicennia (family Av…

(a) the button mangrove, Conocarpus erectus; (b) (chiefly U.S.) the buttonball, Platanus occidentalis; (c) (chiefly U.S.) the buttonbush, Cephalant…

A genus of tropical mangrove trees with prop roots arising from the stem and branches (family Rhizophoraceae); (also rhizophora) a mangrove of this…

Applied to †(a) the mangrove, of which some species have an edible fruit; (b) varieties of the common potato (Solanum tuberosum), cultivated in…

a mangrove shrub native to tropical America and west Africa, Conocarpus erectus (family Combretaceae), which has clusters of reddish-brown aggregate…