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GENUS JATROPHA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Jatropha mean?
• GENUS JATROPHA (noun)
The noun GENUS JATROPHA has 1 sense:
1. a mainly tropical genus of American plant belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae
Familiarity information: GENUS JATROPHA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mainly tropical genus of American plant belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Jatropha; Jatropha
Hypernyms ("genus Jatropha" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Jatropha"):
Jatropha curcus; physic nut (small tropical American tree yielding purple dye and a tanning extract and bearing physic nuts containing a purgative oil that is poisonous in large quantities)
Holonyms ("genus Jatropha" is a member of...):
Euphorbiaceae; family Euphorbiaceae; spurge family (a family of plants of order Geraniales)
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