GENUS MOMORDICA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Momordica mean? 

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

1. Old World tropical vine

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS MOMORDICA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Old World tropical vine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Momordica; Momordica

Hypernyms ("genus Momordica" 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 Momordica"):

balsam apple; Momordica balsamina (a tropical Old World flowering vine with red or orange warty fruit)

balsam pear; Momordica charantia (tropical Old World vine with yellow-orange fruit)

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

Cucurbitaceae; family Cucurbitaceae; gourd family (a family of herbaceous vines (such as cucumber or melon or squash or pumpkin))