GENUS ASIMINA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Asimina mean? 

• GENUS ASIMINA (noun)
  The noun GENUS ASIMINA has 1 sense:

1. pawpaw

  Familiarity information: GENUS ASIMINA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS ASIMINA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pawpaw

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Asimina; genus Asimina

Hypernyms ("genus Asimina" is a kind of...):

magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "genus Asimina"):

Asimina triloba; papaw; papaw tree; pawpaw (small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit)

Holonyms ("genus Asimina" is a member of...):

Annonaceae; custard-apple family; family Annonaceae (chiefly tropical trees or shrubs)