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GENUS INGA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of tropical trees or shrubs
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Inga" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Inga"):
inga (any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers; cultivated as ornamentals)
ice-cream bean; Inga edulis (ornamental evergreen tree with masses of white flowers; tropical and subtropical America)
guama; Inga laurina (tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers; used as shade for coffee plantations)
Holonyms ("genus Inga" is a member of...):
Mimosoideae; subfamily Mimosoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Mimosaceae)
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