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SPONDIAS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Tropical trees having one-seeded fruit

Synonyms:

genus Spondias; Spondias

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Spondias" 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 "Spondias"):

hog plum; Spondias mombin; yellow mombin; yellow mombin tree (tropical American tree having edible yellow fruit)

jocote; mombin; mombin tree; Spondias purpurea (common tropical American shrub or small tree with purplish fruit)

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

Anacardiaceae; family Anacardiaceae; sumac family (the cashew family; trees and shrubs and vines having resinous (sometimes poisonous) juice; includes cashew and mango and pistachio and poison ivy and sumac)

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