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SARCOCEPHALUS
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Genus of tropical African trees and shrubs
Synonyms:
genus Sarcocephalus; Sarcocephalus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Sarcocephalus" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "Sarcocephalus"):
negro peach; Sarcocephalus esculentus; Sarcocephalus latifolius (a stout spreading or semi-climbing tropical shrub with round brownish-red warty fruit; Africa)
Holonyms ("Sarcocephalus" 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)
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