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    GENUS JATROPHA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A mainly tropical genus of American plant belonging to the family Euphorbiaceaeplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Jatropha; Jatropha

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Jatropha"):

    Jatropha curcus; physic nut (small tropical American tree yielding purple dye and a tanning extract and bearing physic nuts containing a purgative oil that is poisonous in large quantities)

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

    Euphorbiaceae; family Euphorbiaceae; spurge family (a family of plants of order Geraniales)

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