XYLOMELUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Xylomelum mean? 

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

1. small species of Australian trees or shrubs; grown for their fruit and flowers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• XYLOMELUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small species of Australian trees or shrubs; grown for their fruit and flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Xylomelum; Xylomelum

Hypernyms ("Xylomelum" 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 "Xylomelum"):

native pear; woody pear; Xylomelum pyriforme (tree bearing pear-shaped fruit with a thick woody epicarp)

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

family Proteaceae; protea family; Proteaceae (large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers; constitutes the order Proteales)