genus areca

English Thesaurus

1. a monocotyledonous genus of palm trees (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	liliopsid genus, monocot genus,
definition	:	genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	areca,
definition	:	any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	arecaceae, family arecaceae, family palmaceae, family palmae, palm family, palmaceae, palmae,
definition	:	chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves; coextensive with the order Palmales (noun.plant)