xylopia

English Thesaurus

1. tropical evergreen trees or shrubs; chiefly African (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	magnoliid dicot genus,
definition	:	genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	guinea pepper, negro pepper, xylopia aethiopica,
definition	:	tropical west African evergreen tree bearing pungent aromatic seeds used as a condiment and in folk medicine (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	annonaceae, custard-apple family, family annonaceae,
definition	:	chiefly tropical trees or shrubs (noun.plant)