GARCINIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Garcinia mean? 

• GARCINIA (noun)
  The noun GARCINIA has 1 sense:

1. evergreen trees and shrubs: mangosteens

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GARCINIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Evergreen trees and shrubs: mangosteens

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Garcinia; genus Garcinia

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

dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "Garcinia"):

Garcinia mangostana; mangosteen; mangosteen tree (East Indian tree with thick leathery leaves and edible fruit)

gamboge tree; Garcinia cambogia; Garcinia gummi-gutta; Garcinia hanburyi (low spreading tree of Indonesia yielding an orange to brown gum resin (gamboge) used as a pigment when powdered)

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

Clusiaceae; family Clusiaceae; family Guttiferae; Guttiferae; St John's wort family (widely distributed family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines that produce oils and resins and some usable timber)

 Context examples 

An extract from the fruit of the Garcinia cambogia.

(Garcinia cambogia Extract, NCI Thesaurus)