English > genus Eugenia: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | Tropical trees and shrubs with aromatic leaves and often valuable hard wood. |
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| Synonym | Eugenia |
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| Member of | Myrtaceae, family Myrtaceae, myrtle family | Trees and shrubs yielding a fragrant oil |
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| Members | Surinam cherry, pitanga, Eugenia uniflora | Brazilian tree with spicy red fruit |
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| 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 |
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| Spanish | eugenia, Eugenia, genus eugenia |
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| Catalan | eugenia, genus eugenia |
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