PAPAYA FAMILY
Dictionary entry overview: What does papaya family mean? • PAPAYA FAMILY (noun)
The noun PAPAYA FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. trees native to tropical America and Africa with milky juice and large palmately lobed leaves
Familiarity information: PAPAYA FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PAPAYA FAMILY (noun)
Meaning:
Trees native to tropical America and Africa with milky juice and large palmately lobed leaves
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Caricaceae; family Caricaceae; papaya family
Hypernyms ("papaya family" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "papaya family"):
Carica; genus Carica (type genus of the Caricaceae; tropical American trees: papayas)
Holonyms ("papaya family" is a member of...):
Hypericales; order Hypericales; order Parietales; Parietales (a large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae)
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