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MAMMEA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

American and Asiatic trees having edible one-seeded fruit

Synonyms:

genus Mammea; Mammea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Mammea" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "Mammea"):

mamey; Mammea americana; mammee; mammee apple; mammee tree (tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind)

Holonyms ("Mammea" is a member of...):

Clusiaceae; family Clusiaceae; family Guttiferae; Guttiferae; St John's wort family (widely distributed family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines that produce oils and resins and some usable timber)

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