PSYCHOTRIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Psychotria mean? 

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

1. tropical chiefly South American shrubs and trees

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PSYCHOTRIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tropical chiefly South American shrubs and trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Psychotria; Psychotria

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Psychotria"):

lemon-wood; lemon-wood tree; lemonwood; lemonwood tree; Psychotria capensis (South African evergreen having hard tough wood)

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

family Rubiaceae; madder family; Rubiaceae (widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry)

 Context examples 

The chloride salt of a white crystalline bitter alkaloid isolated from the root of the plant Psychotria Ipecacuanha (ipecac root) and other plants with antiemetic and anthelminthic properties.

(Emetine Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)