noun
small genus of western African evergreen trees and shrubs bearing fleshy capsular three-seeded fruits edible when neither unripe nor overripe
• Syn: ↑genus Blighia
• Hypernyms: ↑dicot genus, ↑magnoliopsid genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Sapindaceae, ↑family Sapindaceae, ↑soapberry family
• Member Meronyms: ↑akee, ↑akee tree, ↑Blighia sapida
Useful english dictionary. 2012.