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GENUS MELICOCCUS
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Tropical American trees and shrubs bearing berries
Synonyms:
genus Melicocca; genus Melicoccus; Melicocca; Melicoccus
Classified under:
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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