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bumelia — bu·mel·ia (byo͞o mēʹlē ə) n. Any of various often thorny North American trees or shrubs of the genus Bumelia, especially B. lanuginosa or B. lycioides of the southern United States, having very hard wood and black fleshy fruit. Also called… … Universalium
Bumelia — noun deciduous or evergreen American shrubs small trees having very hard wood and milky latex • Syn: ↑genus Bumelia • Hypernyms: ↑dicot genus, ↑magnoliopsid genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Sapotaceae, ↑family Sapotaceae, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
dicot genus — noun genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination • Syn: ↑magnoliopsid genus • Hypernyms: ↑genus • Hyponyms: ↑magnoliid dicot genus, ↑hamamelid dicot genus, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
magnoliopsid genus — noun genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination • Syn: ↑dicot genus • Hypernyms: ↑genus • Hyponyms: ↑magnoliid dicot genus, ↑hamamelid dicot genus, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
sapodilla family — noun tropical trees or shrubs with milky juice and often edible fleshy fruit • Syn: ↑Sapotaceae, ↑family Sapotaceae • Hypernyms: ↑dicot family, ↑magnoliopsid family • Member Holonyms: ↑Ebenales, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
family Sapotaceae — noun tropical trees or shrubs with milky juice and often edible fleshy fruit • Syn: ↑Sapotaceae, ↑sapodilla family • Hypernyms: ↑dicot family, ↑magnoliopsid family • Member Holonyms: ↑Ebenales, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Sapotaceae — noun tropical trees or shrubs with milky juice and often edible fleshy fruit • Syn: ↑family Sapotaceae, ↑sapodilla family • Hypernyms: ↑dicot family, ↑magnoliopsid family • Member Holonyms: ↑Ebenales, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
buckthorn — /buk thawrn /, n. 1. any of several, sometimes thorny trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Rhamnus, esp. R. frangula, the bark of which is used in medicine. Cf. buckthorn family. 2. a tree or shrub belonging to the genus Bumelia, of the… … Universalium
buckthorn — /ˈbʌkθɔn/ (say bukthawn) noun 1. any of several trees or shrubs (sometimes thorny) belonging to the genus Rhamnus, as R. cathartica, a shrub whose berries were formerly much used in medicine as a purgative, and R. frangula, yielding the buckthorn …
buckthorn — [buk′thôrn΄] n. [ BUCK1 + THORN] 1. any of a genus (Rhamnus) of thorny trees or shrubs of the buckthorn family, bearing small greenish flowers and purple berries 2. any of a genus (Bumelia) of trees of the sapodilla family, native to the S U.S.… … English World dictionary
