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SPONDIAS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tropical trees having one-seeded fruit
Synonyms:
genus Spondias; Spondias
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Spondias" 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 "Spondias"):
hog plum; Spondias mombin; yellow mombin; yellow mombin tree (tropical American tree having edible yellow fruit)
jocote; mombin; mombin tree; Spondias purpurea (common tropical American shrub or small tree with purplish fruit)
Holonyms ("Spondias" is a member of...):
Anacardiaceae; family Anacardiaceae; sumac family (the cashew family; trees and shrubs and vines having resinous (sometimes poisonous) juice; includes cashew and mango and pistachio and poison ivy and sumac)
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