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Definition of Calocarpum
1. Noun. A genus of tropical American trees of the family Sapotaceae.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Family Sapotaceae, Sapodilla Family, Sapotaceae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calocarpum
Literary usage of Calocarpum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plant Inventory by Agricultural Research Center-West (U.S.), United States Division of Botany, Horticultural Crops Research Branch, Agricultural Research Service, United States Dept. of Agriculture, United States, United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Northeastern Regi (1914)
"It was described originally as Calocarpum viride Pittier. ... The generic name
Calocarpum used by Pierre and other recent writers for the sapote in not ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1922)
"... Myrcia, Calocarpum, etc. There is not a distinctly temperate type among them
and this flora comes as near meriting the term " tropical" as any fossil ..."
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