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MYRCIARIA CAULIFLORA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small evergreen tropical tree native to Brazil and West Indies but introduced into southern United States; grown in Brazil for its edible tough-skinned purple grapelike fruit that grows all along the branches

Synonyms:

jaboticaba; jaboticaba tree; Myrciaria cauliflora

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Myrciaria cauliflora" is a kind of...):

fruit tree (tree bearing edible fruit)

Meronyms (parts of "Myrciaria cauliflora"):

jaboticaba (tough-skinned purple grapelike tropical fruit grown in Brazil)

Holonyms ("Myrciaria cauliflora" is a member of...):

genus Myrciaria; Myrcia; Myrciaria (a genus of tropical American trees and shrubs of the myrtle family)

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