English > Muntingia: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | One species: Jamaican cherry; sometimes placed in family Flacourtiaceae. |
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| Synonym | genus Muntingia |
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| Member of | Elaeocarpaceae, family Elaeocarpaceae, elaeocarpus family | genus of trees and shrubs widely distributed in warm regions some yielding useful timber |
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| Members | Jamaican cherry, calabur tree, calabura, silk wood, silkwood, Muntingia calabura | A fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and white fleshy edible fruit |
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| Broader | dilleniid dicot genus | genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs |
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| Spanish | genus muntingia, muntingia |
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| Catalan | genus muntingia, muntingia |
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