noun
trees native to tropical America and Africa with milky juice and large palmately lobed leaves
• Syn: ↑Caricaceae, ↑papaya family
• Hypernyms: ↑dilleniid dicot family
• Member Holonyms: ↑Parietales, ↑order Parietales, ↑Hypericales, ↑order Hypericales
• Member Meronyms: ↑Carica, ↑genus Carica
Useful english dictionary. 2012.