GENUS HARPULLIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Harpullia mean? 

• GENUS HARPULLIA (noun)
  The noun GENUS HARPULLIA has 1 sense:

1. genus of tropical Asiatic and African trees

  Familiarity information: GENUS HARPULLIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS HARPULLIA (noun)

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Meaning:

Genus of tropical Asiatic and African trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Harpullia" 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 "genus Harpullia"):

harpullia (any of various tree of the genus Harpullia)

Holonyms ("genus Harpullia" 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)