eugenia (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *Eugenia*:
NOUN	plant	Eugenia, genus Eugenia	tropical trees and shrubs with aromatic leaves and often valuable hard wood

Eugenia > pronunciation
Sounds	yuw.jhiy'niyah
Rhymes	Abyssinia ... zinnia: 217 rhymes with iyah...

English > *Eugenia*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	Tropical trees and shrubs with aromatic leaves and often valuable hard wood.
Synonym	genus Eugenia
Member of	Myrtaceae, family Myrtaceae, myrtle family	Trees and shrubs yielding a fragrant oil
Members	Surinam cherry, pitanga, Eugenia uniflora	Brazilian tree with spicy red fruit
	nakedwood, Eugenia dicrana	Tree of extreme southern Florida and West Indies having thin scaly bark and aromatic fruits and seeds and yielding hard heavy close-grained zebrawood
	rose apple, rose-apple tree, jambosa, Eugenia jambos	Tropical tree of the East Indies cultivated for its edible fruit
	sour cherry, Eugenia corynantha	Australian tree with sour red fruit
Broader	dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus	genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
Spanish	eugenia, Eugenia, genus eugenia
Catalan	eugenia, genus eugenia

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