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Flacourtia

noun

often spiny trees or shrubs of tropical Asia and Africa

• Syn: ↑genus Flacourtia

• Hypernyms: ↑dilleniid dicot genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Flacourtiaceae, ↑family Flacourtiaceae, ↑flacourtia family

• Member Meronyms: ↑governor's plum, ↑governor plum, ↑Madagascar plum, ↑ramontchi, ↑batoko palm, ↑Flacourtia indica

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\\fləˈku̇rd.ēə, flaˈ-, -kōr-\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Étienne de Flacourt died 1660 French colonizer + New Latin -ia

: a small genus of often spiny trees or shrubs (family Flacourtiaceae) of tropical Asia and Africa with leaves pinnately veined, flowers in small axillary racemes or clusters, sepals imbricated, and seed enclosed in a stony covering which is surrounded by an edible pulp — see governor's plum

Useful english dictionary. 2012.