| NOUN | plant | genus Carica, Carica | type genus of the Caricaceae |
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| Meaning | type genus of the Caricaceae; tropical American trees: papayas. | |
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| Synonym | Carica | |
| Member of | Caricaceae, family Caricaceae, papaya family | Trees native to tropical America and Africa with milky juice and large palmately lobed leaves |
| Members | papaya, papaia, pawpaw, papaya tree, melon tree, Carica papaya | Tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit |
| Broader | dilleniid dicot genus | genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs |
| Spanish | carica, genus carica | |
| Catalan | carica, genus carica | |
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