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GENUS CHRYSOPHYLLUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Chrysophyllum mean?
• GENUS CHRYSOPHYLLUM (noun)
The noun GENUS CHRYSOPHYLLUM has 1 sense:
1. tropical American evergreen trees or shrubs
Familiarity information: GENUS CHRYSOPHYLLUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tropical American evergreen trees or shrubs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Chrysophyllum; genus Chrysophyllum
Hypernyms ("genus Chrysophyllum" 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 "genus Chrysophyllum"):
caimito; Chrysophyllum cainito; star apple (evergreen tree of West Indies and Central America having edible purple fruit star-shaped in cross section and dark green leaves with golden silky undersides)
Holonyms ("genus Chrysophyllum" is a member of...):
family Sapotaceae; sapodilla family; Sapotaceae (tropical trees or shrubs with milky juice and often edible fleshy fruit)
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