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GENUS TAMARINDUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Tamarindus mean? 

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

1. widely cultivated tropical trees originally of Africaplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS TAMARINDUS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Widely cultivated tropical trees originally of Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Tamarindus; Tamarindus

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Tamarindus"):

tamarind; tamarind tree; tamarindo; Tamarindus indica (long-lived tropical evergreen tree with a spreading crown and feathery evergreen foliage and fragrant flowers yielding hard yellowish wood and long pods with edible chocolate-colored acidic pulp)

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

Fabaceae; family Fabaceae; family Leguminosae; legume family; Leguminosae; pea family (a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae)


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