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    GENUS CARICA

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    Meaning:

    Type genus of the Caricaceae; tropical American trees: papayasplay

    Synonyms:

    Carica; genus Carica

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus Carica" is a kind of...):

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

    Meronyms (members of "genus Carica"):

    Carica papaya; melon tree; papaia; papaya; papaya tree; pawpaw (tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit)

    Holonyms ("genus Carica" is a member of...):

    Caricaceae; family Caricaceae; papaya family (trees native to tropical America and Africa with milky juice and large palmately lobed leaves)

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