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GENUS INGA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Genus of tropical trees or shrubs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Inga"):

inga (any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers; cultivated as ornamentals)

ice-cream bean; Inga edulis (ornamental evergreen tree with masses of white flowers; tropical and subtropical America)

guama; Inga laurina (tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers; used as shade for coffee plantations)

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

Mimosoideae; subfamily Mimosoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Mimosaceae)

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