GENUS ARTOCARPUS

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Meaning:

Evergreen Asiatic trees now grown through the tropics: breadfruit; jackfruit

Synonyms:

Artocarpus; genus Artocarpus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Artocarpus" 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 Artocarpus"):

Artocarpus altilis; Artocarpus communis; breadfruit; breadfruit tree (native to Pacific islands and having edible fruit with a texture like bread)

Artocarpus heterophyllus; jackfruit; jackfruit tree (East Indian tree cultivated for its immense edible fruit and seeds)

Artocarpus odoratissima; marang; marang tree (Philippine tree similar to the breadfruit tree bearing edible fruit)

Holonyms ("genus Artocarpus" is a member of...):

family Moraceae; Moraceae; mulberry family (trees or shrubs having a milky juice; in some classifications includes genus Cannabis)