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PAPAYA FAMILY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Trees native to tropical America and Africa with milky juice and large palmately lobed leaves

Synonyms:

Caricaceae; family Caricaceae; papaya family

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("papaya family" is a kind of...):

dilleniid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "papaya family"):

Carica; genus Carica (type genus of the Caricaceae; tropical American trees: papayas)

Holonyms ("papaya family" is a member of...):

Hypericales; order Hypericales; order Parietales; Parietales (a large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae)

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