GENUS MAMMEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Mammea mean? 

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

1. American and Asiatic trees having edible one-seeded fruit

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS MAMMEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

American and Asiatic trees having edible one-seeded fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Mammea; Mammea

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

dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "genus Mammea"):

mamey; Mammea americana; mammee; mammee apple; mammee tree (tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind)

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

Clusiaceae; family Clusiaceae; family Guttiferae; Guttiferae; St John's wort family (widely distributed family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines that produce oils and resins and some usable timber)