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MANILKARA

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Meaning:

Genus of large evergreen trees with milky latex; pantropical

Synonyms:

genus Manilkara; Manilkara

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Manilkara" 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 (parts of "Manilkara"):

Achras zapota; Manilkara zapota; sapodilla; sapodilla tree (large tropical American evergreen yielding chicle gum and edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Achras)

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

family Sapotaceae; sapodilla family; Sapotaceae (tropical trees or shrubs with milky juice and often edible fleshy fruit)

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