JATROPHA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Jatropha mean? 

• JATROPHA (noun)
  The noun JATROPHA has 1 sense:

1. a mainly tropical genus of American plant belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae

  Familiarity information: JATROPHA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JATROPHA (noun)

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 ("Jatropha" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "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 ("Jatropha" is a member of...):

Euphorbiaceae; family Euphorbiaceae; spurge family (a family of plants of order Geraniales)