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GENUS MALUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Malus mean? 

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

1. apple trees; found throughout temperate zones of the northern hemisphereplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS MALUS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Apple trees; found throughout temperate zones of the northern hemisphere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Malus; Malus

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Malus"):

apple tree (any tree of the genus Malus especially those bearing firm rounded edible fruits)

apple; Malus pumila; orchard apple tree (native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits)

cherry apple; cherry crab; Malus baccata; Siberian crab; Siberian crab apple (Asian wild crab apple cultivated in many varieties for it small acid usually red fruit used for preserving)

Malus sylvestris; wild crab (wild crab apple native to Europe; a chief ancestor of cultivated apples)

American crab apple; garland crab; Malus coronaria (medium-sized tree of the eastern United States having pink blossoms and small yellow fruit)

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

family Rosaceae; Rosaceae; rose family (a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens)


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