MELICOCCA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Melicocca mean? 

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

1. tropical American trees and shrubs bearing berries

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MELICOCCA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tropical American trees and shrubs bearing berries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Melicocca; genus Melicoccus; Melicocca; Melicoccus

Hypernyms ("Melicocca" 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 "Melicocca"):

genip; ginep; honey berry; mamoncillo; Melicocca bijuga; Melicocca bijugatus; Spanish lime; Spanish lime tree (tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp)

Holonyms ("Melicocca" is a member of...):

family Sapindaceae; Sapindaceae; soapberry family (chiefly tropical New and Old World deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs bearing leathery drupes with yellow translucent flesh; most plants produce toxic saponins)