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MAMMEA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
American and Asiatic trees having edible one-seeded fruit
Synonyms:
genus Mammea; Mammea
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Mammea" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "Mammea"):
mamey; Mammea americana; mammee; mammee apple; mammee tree (tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind)
Holonyms ("Mammea" is a member of...):
Clusiaceae; family Clusiaceae; family Guttiferae; Guttiferae; St John's wort family (widely distributed family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines that produce oils and resins and some usable timber)