MUNTINGIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Muntingia mean? 

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

1. one species: Jamaican cherry; sometimes placed in family Flacourtiaceae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUNTINGIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One species: Jamaican cherry; sometimes placed in family Flacourtiaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Muntingia; Muntingia

Hypernyms ("Muntingia" is a kind of...):

dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "Muntingia"):

calabur tree; calabura; Jamaican cherry; Muntingia calabura; silk wood; silkwood (a fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and white fleshy edible fruit; bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves)

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

Elaeocarpaceae; elaeocarpus family; family Elaeocarpaceae (genus of trees and shrubs widely distributed in warm regions some yielding useful timber; in some classifications included in the family Santalaceae)