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GENUS MELICYTUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Melicytus mean?
• GENUS MELICYTUS (noun)
The noun GENUS MELICYTUS has 1 sense:
1. a genus of deciduous shrubs or trees; fruit is a berry; grow in New Zealand and Fiji and Solomon Islands
Familiarity information: GENUS MELICYTUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A genus of deciduous shrubs or trees; fruit is a berry; grow in New Zealand and Fiji and Solomon Islands
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Melicytus; Melicytus
Hypernyms ("genus Melicytus" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Holonyms ("genus Melicytus" is a member of...):
family Violaceae; Violaceae; violet family (a family of order Parietales including the genera Viola, Hybanthus, Hymenanthera, Melicytus)
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