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BLIGHIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Blighia mean? 

BLIGHIA (noun)
  The noun BLIGHIA has 1 sense:

1. small genus of western African evergreen trees and shrubs bearing fleshy capsular three-seeded fruits edible when neither unripe nor overripeplay

  Familiarity information: BLIGHIA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BLIGHIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of western African evergreen trees and shrubs bearing fleshy capsular three-seeded fruits edible when neither unripe nor overripe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Blighia; genus Blighia

Hypernyms ("Blighia" is a kind of...):

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Blighia"):

akee; akee tree; Blighia sapida (widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits; introduced in Jamaica by William Bligh)

Holonyms ("Blighia" is a member of...):

family Sapindaceae; Sapindaceae; soapberry family (chiefly tropical New and Old World deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs bearing leathery drupes with yellow translucent flesh; most plants produce toxic saponins)


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