JACQUINIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Jacquinia mean? 

• JACQUINIA (noun)
  The noun JACQUINIA has 1 sense:

1. sometimes placed in family Myrsinaceae

  Familiarity information: JACQUINIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JACQUINIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sometimes placed in family Myrsinaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Jacquinia; Jacquinia

Hypernyms ("Jacquinia" 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 "Jacquinia"):

bracelet wood; Jacquinia armillaris (small West Indian shrub or tree with hard glossy seeds patterned yellow and brown that are used to make bracelets)

barbasco; Jacquinia keyensis; joewood (West Indian shrub or small tree having leathery saponaceous leaves and extremely hard wood)

Holonyms ("Jacquinia" is a member of...):

family Theophrastaceae; Theophrastaceae (family of mainly tropical American trees and shrubs similar to those of the Myrsinaceae; often included in the Myrsinaceae)