xylopia (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *Xylopia*:
NOUN	plant	Xylopia, genus Xylopia	tropical evergreen trees or shrubs

English > *Xylopia*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	Tropical evergreen trees or shrubs; chiefly African.
Synonym	genus Xylopia
Member of	Annonaceae, family Annonaceae, custard-apple family	chiefly tropical trees or shrubs
Members	Guinea pepper, negro pepper, Xylopia aethiopica	Tropical west African evergreen tree bearing pungent aromatic seeds used as a condiment and in folk medicine
Broader	magnoliid dicot genus	genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms
Spanish	genus xylopia, xylopia
Catalan	genus xylopia, xylopia

HyperDic: xylopia