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MALUS
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Apple trees; found throughout temperate zones of the northern hemisphere
Synonyms:
genus Malus; Malus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Malus" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "Malus"):
apple tree (any tree of the genus Malus especially those bearing firm rounded edible fruits)
apple; Malus pumila; orchard apple tree (native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits)
cherry apple; cherry crab; Malus baccata; Siberian crab; Siberian crab apple (Asian wild crab apple cultivated in many varieties for it small acid usually red fruit used for preserving)
Malus sylvestris; wild crab (wild crab apple native to Europe; a chief ancestor of cultivated apples)
American crab apple; garland crab; Malus coronaria (medium-sized tree of the eastern United States having pink blossoms and small yellow fruit)
Holonyms ("Malus" is a member of...):
family Rosaceae; Rosaceae; rose family (a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens)
