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GENUS GARCINIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Garcinia mean?
• GENUS GARCINIA (noun)
The noun GENUS GARCINIA has 1 sense:
1. evergreen trees and shrubs: mangosteens
Familiarity information: GENUS GARCINIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Evergreen trees and shrubs: mangosteens
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Garcinia; genus Garcinia
Hypernyms ("genus Garcinia" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "genus 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 ("genus 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)
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