EUGENIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Eugenia mean? 

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

1. tropical trees and shrubs with aromatic leaves and often valuable hard wood

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EUGENIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tropical trees and shrubs with aromatic leaves and often valuable hard wood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Eugenia; genus Eugenia

Hypernyms ("Eugenia" 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 "Eugenia"):

Eugenia corynantha; sour cherry (Australian tree with sour red fruit)

Eugenia dicrana; nakedwood (tree of extreme southern Florida and West Indies having thin scaly bark and aromatic fruits and seeds and yielding hard heavy close-grained zebrawood)

Eugenia uniflora; pitanga; Surinam cherry (Brazilian tree with spicy red fruit; often cultivated in California and Florida)

Eugenia jambos; jambosa; rose-apple tree; rose apple (tropical tree of the East Indies cultivated for its edible fruit)

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

family Myrtaceae; Myrtaceae; myrtle family (trees and shrubs yielding a fragrant oil)

 Context examples 

An herb obtained from the plant Eugenia jambolana.

(Jambul, NCI Thesaurus)

An herbal combination of two plants, devil's claw (Harpagophytum procumbens) and jambul (Eugenia jambolana) that may be administered both orally and topically in various formulations.

(Devil's Foot/Jambul, NCI Thesaurus)