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EUGENIA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Tropical trees and shrubs with aromatic leaves and often valuable hard wood

Synonyms:

Eugenia; genus Eugenia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Eugenia" 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 "Eugenia"):

Eugenia corynantha; sour cherry (Australian tree with sour red fruit)

Eugenia dicrana; nakedwood (tree of extreme southern Florida and West Indies having thin scaly bark and aromatic fruits and seeds and yielding hard heavy close-grained zebrawood)

Eugenia uniflora; pitanga; Surinam cherry (Brazilian tree with spicy red fruit; often cultivated in California and Florida)

Eugenia jambos; jambosa; rose-apple tree; rose apple (tropical tree of the East Indies cultivated for its edible fruit)

Holonyms ("Eugenia" is a member of...):

family Myrtaceae; Myrtaceae; myrtle family (trees and shrubs yielding a fragrant oil)

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