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Melicocca

noun

tropical American trees and shrubs bearing berries

• Syn: ↑Melicoccus, ↑genus Melicoccus, ↑genus Melicocca

• Hypernyms: ↑dicot genus, ↑magnoliopsid genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Sapindaceae, ↑family Sapindaceae, ↑soapberry family

• Member Meronyms:

↑Spanish lime, ↑Spanish lime tree, ↑honey berry, ↑mamoncillo, ↑genip, ↑ginep, ↑Melicocca bijuga, ↑Melicocca bijugatus

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\\ˌmeləˈkäkə\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from meli- + Greek -cocca (from kokkos kermes berry)

: a genus of tropical American trees and shrubs (family Sapindaceae) having pinnate leaflets, abruptly tetramerous flowers with a peltate stigma, and a one-seeded or two-seeded berry

Useful english dictionary. 2012.