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GENUS MELICOCCA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Melicocca mean?
• GENUS MELICOCCA (noun)
The noun GENUS MELICOCCA has 1 sense:
1. tropical American trees and shrubs bearing berries
Familiarity information: GENUS MELICOCCA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tropical American trees and shrubs bearing berries
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Melicocca; genus Melicoccus; Melicocca; Melicoccus
Hypernyms ("genus Melicocca" 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 Melicocca"):
genip; ginep; honey berry; mamoncillo; Melicocca bijuga; Melicocca bijugatus; Spanish lime; Spanish lime tree (tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp)
Holonyms ("genus Melicocca" 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)
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