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MOMORDICA

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Meaning:

Old World tropical vine

Synonyms:

genus Momordica; Momordica

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Momordica" 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 "Momordica"):

balsam apple; Momordica balsamina (a tropical Old World flowering vine with red or orange warty fruit)

balsam pear; Momordica charantia (tropical Old World vine with yellow-orange fruit)

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

Cucurbitaceae; family Cucurbitaceae; gourd family (a family of herbaceous vines (such as cucumber or melon or squash or pumpkin))

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