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GENUS GENIPA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Genipa mean?
• GENUS GENIPA (noun)
The noun GENUS GENIPA has 1 sense:
1. tropical American evergreen trees or shrubs bearing yellow flowers and succulent edible fruit with a thick rind
Familiarity information: GENUS GENIPA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tropical American evergreen trees or shrubs bearing yellow flowers and succulent edible fruit with a thick rind
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("genus Genipa" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Genipa"):
genipa (any tree of the genus Genipa bearing yellow flowers and edible fruit with a thick rind)
Genipa Americana; genipap fruit; jagua; marmalade box (tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit)
Holonyms ("genus Genipa" is a member of...):
family Rubiaceae; madder family; Rubiaceae (widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry)
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