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Artocarpus

noun

evergreen Asiatic trees now grown through the tropics: breadfruit; jackfruit

• Hypernyms: ↑dicot genus, ↑magnoliopsid genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Moraceae, ↑family Moraceae, ↑mulberry family

• Member Meronyms:

↑breadfruit, ↑breadfruit tree, ↑Artocarpus communis, ↑Artocarpus altilis, ↑jackfruit, ↑jackfruit tree, ↑Artocarpus heterophyllus, ↑marang, ↑marang tree, ↑Artocarpus odoratissima

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\\ˌärd.əˈkärpəs\ noun

Etymology: New Latin, from arto- + -carpus

1. capitalized : a large genus of tall evergreen milky-juiced trees (family Moraceae) originally Asiatic but now grown throughout the tropics having large alternate entire or lobed leaves and flowers in catkinlike clusters with the pistillate ones in crowded heads that produce a multiple fleshy fruit

2. -es : a plant of the genus Artocarpus : breadfruit, jackfruit

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artocarpus /är-tō-kärˈpəs/

noun

A plant of the genus Artocarpus of the family Moraceae, including breadfruit and jack-fruit

ORIGIN: Gr artos bread, and karpos fruit

Useful english dictionary. 2012.