noun
mostly tropical American shrubs or small trees with small yellowish flowers and yellow or red fruits
• Syn: ↑Colubrina
• Hypernyms: ↑dicot genus, ↑magnoliopsid genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Rhamnaceae, ↑family Rhamnaceae, ↑buckthorn family
• Member Meronyms: ↑nakedwood
Useful english dictionary. 2012.