POUTERIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pouteria mean? 

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

1. tropical American timber tree with edible fruit (canistel)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• POUTERIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tropical American timber tree with edible fruit (canistel)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Pouteria; Pouteria

Hypernyms ("Pouteria" 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 "Pouteria"):

canistel; canistel tree; Pouteria campechiana nervosa (tropical tree of Florida and West Indies yielding edible fruit)

Calocarpum zapota; mammee; marmalade tree; Pouteria zapota; sapote (tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum)

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

family Sapotaceae; sapodilla family; Sapotaceae (tropical trees or shrubs with milky juice and often edible fleshy fruit)