DIMOCARPUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Dimocarpus mean? 

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

1. longan

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIMOCARPUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Longan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Dimocarpus; genus Dimocarpus

Hypernyms ("Dimocarpus" 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 "Dimocarpus"):

Dimocarpus longan; Euphorbia litchi; longan; longanberry; lungen; Nephelium longana (tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts; sometimes placed in genera Euphorbia or Nephelium)

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

family Sapindaceae; Sapindaceae; soapberry family (chiefly tropical New and Old World deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs bearing leathery drupes with yellow translucent flesh; most plants produce toxic saponins)