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    SAPOTACEAE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Tropical trees or shrubs with milky juice and often edible fleshy fruitplay

    Synonyms:

    family Sapotaceae; sapodilla family; Sapotaceae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

    Meronyms (members of "Sapotaceae"):

    Achras; genus Achras (tropical trees having papery leaves and large fruit)

    Bumelia; genus Bumelia (deciduous or evergreen American shrubs small trees having very hard wood and milky latex)

    Calocarpum; genus Calocarpum (a genus of tropical American trees of the family Sapotaceae)

    Chrysophyllum; genus Chrysophyllum (tropical American evergreen trees or shrubs)

    genus Manilkara; Manilkara (genus of large evergreen trees with milky latex; pantropical)

    genus Palaquium; Palaquium (large genus of Malaysian trees with milky juice and leathery leaves)

    genus Payena; Payena (genus of medium to large Malaysian trees yielding gutta-percha)

    genus Pouteria; Pouteria (tropical American timber tree with edible fruit (canistel))

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

    Ebenales; order Ebenales (trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae)

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