NEPHELIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nephelium mean? 

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

1. a genus of dicotyledonous trees of the family Sapindaceae that are native to Asia and Australia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEPHELIUM (noun)

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Meaning:

A genus of dicotyledonous trees of the family Sapindaceae that are native to Asia and Australia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Nephelium; Nephelium

Hypernyms ("Nephelium" 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 "Nephelium"):

Nephelium lappaceum; rambotan; rambutan; rambutan tree (Malayan tree bearing spiny red fruit)

Nephelium mutabile; pulasan; pulasan tree; pulassan (East Indian fruit tree bearing fruit similar to but sweeter than that of the rambutan)

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

family Sapindaceae; Sapindaceae; soapberry family (chiefly tropical New and Old World deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs bearing leathery drupes with yellow translucent flesh; most plants produce toxic saponins)