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MELICOCCUS

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Meaning:

Tropical American trees and shrubs bearing berries

Synonyms:

genus Melicocca; genus Melicoccus; Melicocca; Melicoccus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Melicoccus" 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 "Melicoccus"):

genip; ginep; honey berry; mamoncillo; Melicocca bijuga; Melicocca bijugatus; Spanish lime; Spanish lime tree (tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp)

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

family Sapindaceae; Sapindaceae; soapberry family (chiefly tropical New and Old World deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs bearing leathery drupes with yellow translucent flesh; most plants produce toxic saponins)

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