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SAPOTACEAE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Tropical trees or shrubs with milky juice and often edible fleshy fruit

Synonyms:

family Sapotaceae; sapodilla family; Sapotaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Sapotaceae"):

Achras; genus Achras (tropical trees having papery leaves and large fruit)

Bumelia; genus Bumelia (deciduous or evergreen American shrubs small trees having very hard wood and milky latex)

Calocarpum; genus Calocarpum (a genus of tropical American trees of the family Sapotaceae)

Chrysophyllum; genus Chrysophyllum (tropical American evergreen trees or shrubs)

genus Manilkara; Manilkara (genus of large evergreen trees with milky latex; pantropical)

genus Palaquium; Palaquium (large genus of Malaysian trees with milky juice and leathery leaves)

genus Payena; Payena (genus of medium to large Malaysian trees yielding gutta-percha)

genus Pouteria; Pouteria (tropical American timber tree with edible fruit (canistel))

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

Ebenales; order Ebenales (trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae)

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