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Definition of Muntingia
1. Noun. One species: Jamaican cherry; sometimes placed in family Flacourtiaceae.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Elaeocarpaceae, Elaeocarpus Family, Family Elaeocarpaceae
Member holonyms: Calabur Tree, Calabura, Jamaican Cherry, Muntingia Calabura, Silk Wood, Silkwood
Lexicographical Neighbors of Muntingia
Literary usage of Muntingia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and ...by Philip Miller by Philip Miller (1754)
"muntingia with a rough Elm-leaf, and the leall Fruit growing in Clutters. 3. ...
muntingia with a Cornel-leaf, and a letter Fruit. ..."
2. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1821)
"Such as mayors, sheriffs, consuls, &c. muntingia, in botany, so called from
Abraham Hunting;, professor of botany at Groeningen, a genus of the Poly- andria ..."
3. A General System of Botany Descriptive and Analytical: In Two Parts by Emmanuel Le Maout, Joseph Decaisne, Joseph Dalton Hooker (1876)
"... muntingia); ovules attached to the inner angle of the cells, solitary or
geminate, pendulous from the top of each cell, or ascending from the base; ..."