HyperDic: genus_chrysophyllum

English > 1 sense of the expression genus Chrysophyllum:
NOUNplantgenus Chrysophyllum, Chrysophyllumtropical American evergreen trees or shrubs
English > genus Chrysophyllum: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
MeaningTropical American evergreen trees or shrubs.
SynonymChrysophyllum
Member ofSapotaceae, family Sapotaceae, sapodilla familyTropical trees or shrubs with milky juice and often edible fleshy fruit
Membersstar apple, caimito, Chrysophyllum cainitoevergreen tree of West Indies and Central America having edible purple fruit star-shaped in cross section and dark green leaves with golden silky undersides
Broaderdicot genus, magnoliopsid genusgenus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
Spanishchrysophyllum, genus chrysophyllum
Catalanchrysophyllum, genus chrysophyllum

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