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    SPONDIAS

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Tropical trees having one-seeded fruitplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Spondias; Spondias

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("Spondias" 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 (members of "Spondias"):

    hog plum; Spondias mombin; yellow mombin; yellow mombin tree (tropical American tree having edible yellow fruit)

    jocote; mombin; mombin tree; Spondias purpurea (common tropical American shrub or small tree with purplish fruit)

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

    Anacardiaceae; family Anacardiaceae; sumac family (the cashew family; trees and shrubs and vines having resinous (sometimes poisonous) juice; includes cashew and mango and pistachio and poison ivy and sumac)

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