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GENUS MUNTINGIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One species: Jamaican cherry; sometimes placed in family Flacourtiaceae
Synonyms:
genus Muntingia; Muntingia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Muntingia" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Muntingia"):
calabur tree; calabura; Jamaican cherry; Muntingia calabura; silk wood; silkwood (a fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and white fleshy edible fruit; bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves)
Holonyms ("genus Muntingia" is a member of...):
Elaeocarpaceae; elaeocarpus family; family Elaeocarpaceae (genus of trees and shrubs widely distributed in warm regions some yielding useful timber; in some classifications included in the family Santalaceae)
