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    GENUS MOMORDICA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Old World tropical vineplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Momordica; Momordica

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus Momordica" 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 Momordica"):

    balsam apple; Momordica balsamina (a tropical Old World flowering vine with red or orange warty fruit)

    balsam pear; Momordica charantia (tropical Old World vine with yellow-orange fruit)

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

    Cucurbitaceae; family Cucurbitaceae; gourd family (a family of herbaceous vines (such as cucumber or melon or squash or pumpkin))

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