NOUN | plant | genus Carissa | Old World genus of tropical evergreen usually spiny shrubs |
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Meaning | Old World genus of tropical evergreen usually spiny shrubs. | |
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Member of | Apocynaceae, family Apocynaceae, dogbane family | chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers |
Members | carissa | A shrub of the genus Carissa having fragrant white flowers and plumlike red to purple-black fruits |
Broader | dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
Spanish | genus carissa | |
Catalan | genus carissa |
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