ERIOBOTRYA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Eriobotrya mean? 

• ERIOBOTRYA (noun)
  The noun ERIOBOTRYA has 1 sense:

1. Asiatic evergreen fruit trees

  Familiarity information: ERIOBOTRYA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ERIOBOTRYA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Asiatic evergreen fruit trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Eriobotrya; genus Eriobotrya

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Eriobotrya"):

Eriobotrya japonica; Japanese medlar; Japanese plum; loquat; loquat tree (evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan)

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

family Rosaceae; Rosaceae; rose family (a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens)