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GENUS MELICOCCUS

• GENUS MELICOCCUS (noun)
The noun GENUS MELICOCCUS has 1 sense:

1. tropical American trees and shrubs bearing berries

Familiarity information: GENUS MELICOCCUS used as a noun is very rare.

• GENUS MELICOCCUS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Tropical American trees and shrubs bearing berries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Melicocca; genus Melicoccus; Melicocca; Melicoccus

Hypernyms ("genus Melicoccus" 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 "genus Melicoccus"):

genip; ginep; honey berry; mamoncillo; Melicocca bijuga; Melicocca bijugatus; Spanish lime; Spanish lime tree (tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp)

Holonyms ("genus Melicoccus" 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)

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