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JATROPHA

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Meaning:

A mainly tropical genus of American plant belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae

Synonyms:

genus Jatropha; Jatropha

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Jatropha" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Jatropha"):

Jatropha curcus; physic nut (small tropical American tree yielding purple dye and a tanning extract and bearing physic nuts containing a purgative oil that is poisonous in large quantities)

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

Euphorbiaceae; family Euphorbiaceae; spurge family (a family of plants of order Geraniales)

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