GENUS PICRASMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Picrasma mean? 

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

1. small genus of deciduous trees of tropical America and Asia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS PICRASMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of deciduous trees of tropical America and Asia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Picrasma; Picrasma

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Picrasma"):

bitterwood; Jamaica quassia; Picrasma excelsa; Picrasma excelsum (West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia)

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

family Simaroubaceae; quassia family; Simaroubaceae (chiefly tropical trees and shrubs with bitter bark having dry usually one-seeded winged fruit)