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GENUS GENIPA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Tropical American evergreen trees or shrubs bearing yellow flowers and succulent edible fruit with a thick rind

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Genipa" is a kind of...):

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "genus Genipa"):

genipa (any tree of the genus Genipa bearing yellow flowers and edible fruit with a thick rind)

Genipa Americana; genipap fruit; jagua; marmalade box (tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit)

Holonyms ("genus Genipa" 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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