NOUN | plant | Momordica, genus Momordica | Old World tropical vine |
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Meaning | Old World tropical vine. | |
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Synonym | genus Momordica | |
Member of | Cucurbitaceae, family Cucurbitaceae, gourd family | A family of herbaceous vines (such as cucumber or melon or squash or pumpkin) |
Members | balsam apple, Momordica balsamina | A tropical Old World flowering vine with red or orange warty fruit |
balsam pear, Momordica charantia | Tropical Old World vine with yellow-orange fruit | |
Broader | dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
Spanish | genus momordica, momordica | |
Catalan | genus momordica, momordica |
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