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    GENUS VANGUERIA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Tropical African and Asiatic trees and shrubs having one-seeded fruitplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Vangueria; Vangueria

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "genus Vangueria"):

    medlar; Vangueria infausta; wild medlar; wild medlar tree (small deciduous tree of southern Africa having edible fruit)

    Spanish tamarind; Vangueria madagascariensis (shrubby tree of Madagascar occasionally cultivated for its edible apple-shaped fruit)

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

    family Rubiaceae; madder family; Rubiaceae (widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry)

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