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Noun: black mangrove
  1. An Australian tree resembling the black mangrove of the West Indies and Florida
    - Aegiceras majus
     
  2. A 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
    - Avicennia marina

Derived forms: black mangroves

Type of: blackwood, blackwood tree, tree

Part of: Aegiceras, Avicennia, genus Aegiceras, genus Avicennia

Encyclopedia: Black mangrove