NOUN | plant | Xylopia, genus Xylopia | tropical evergreen trees or shrubs |
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Meaning | Tropical evergreen trees or shrubs; chiefly African. | |
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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 |
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