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GENUS INGA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Inga mean? 

GENUS INGA (noun)
  The noun GENUS INGA has 1 sense:

1. genus of tropical trees or shrubsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS INGA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of tropical trees or shrubs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Inga" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Inga"):

inga (any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers; cultivated as ornamentals)

ice-cream bean; Inga edulis (ornamental evergreen tree with masses of white flowers; tropical and subtropical America)

guama; Inga laurina (tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers; used as shade for coffee plantations)

Holonyms ("genus Inga" is a member of...):

Mimosoideae; subfamily Mimosoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Mimosaceae)


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