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GENUS ACHRAS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Achras mean?
• GENUS ACHRAS (noun)
The noun GENUS ACHRAS has 1 sense:
1. tropical trees having papery leaves and large fruit
Familiarity information: GENUS ACHRAS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tropical trees having papery leaves and large fruit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Achras; genus Achras
Hypernyms ("genus Achras" 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)
Holonyms ("genus Achras" is a member of...):
family Sapotaceae; sapodilla family; Sapotaceae (tropical trees or shrubs with milky juice and often edible fleshy fruit)
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