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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, ↑sapodilla family

• Member Meronyms: ↑buckthorn

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\\byüˈmēlēa\ noun

Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, ash, from Greek boumelia

1. capitalized : a genus of tough spiny American trees and shrubs (family Sapotaceae) that bear edible berries

2. -s : any plant of the genus Bumelia

Useful english dictionary. 2012.