VANGUERIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Vangueria mean? 

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

1. tropical African and Asiatic trees and shrubs having one-seeded fruit

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VANGUERIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tropical African and Asiatic trees and shrubs having one-seeded fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Vangueria; Vangueria

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Vangueria"):

medlar; Vangueria infausta; wild medlar; wild medlar tree (small deciduous tree of southern Africa having edible fruit)

Spanish tamarind; Vangueria madagascariensis (shrubby tree of Madagascar occasionally cultivated for its edible apple-shaped fruit)

Holonyms ("Vangueria" 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)