| / English Dictionary |
GENUS VANGUERIA
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tropical African and Asiatic trees and shrubs having one-seeded fruit
Synonyms:
genus Vangueria; Vangueria
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Vangueria" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Vangueria"):
medlar; Vangueria infausta; wild medlar; wild medlar tree (small deciduous tree of southern Africa having edible fruit)
Spanish tamarind; Vangueria madagascariensis (shrubby tree of Madagascar occasionally cultivated for its edible apple-shaped fruit)
Holonyms ("genus Vangueria" is a member of...):
family Rubiaceae; madder family; Rubiaceae (widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry)
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE
