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    GENUS BLIGHIA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Small genus of western African evergreen trees and shrubs bearing fleshy capsular three-seeded fruits edible when neither unripe nor overripeplay

    Synonyms:

    Blighia; genus Blighia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus Blighia" 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 "genus Blighia"):

    akee; akee tree; Blighia sapida (widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits; introduced in Jamaica by William Bligh)

    Holonyms ("genus Blighia" 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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