GENUS SARCOCEPHALUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Sarcocephalus mean? 

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

1. genus of tropical African trees and shrubs

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS SARCOCEPHALUS (noun)

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Meaning:

Genus of tropical African trees and shrubs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Sarcocephalus; Sarcocephalus

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Sarcocephalus"):

negro peach; Sarcocephalus esculentus; Sarcocephalus latifolius (a stout spreading or semi-climbing tropical shrub with round brownish-red warty fruit; Africa)

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

family Rubiaceae; madder family; Rubiaceae (widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry)