genus Carica

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Noun1.genus Carica - type genus of the Caricaceaegenus Carica - type genus of the Caricaceae; tropical American trees: papayas
dilleniid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs
Caricaceae, family Caricaceae, papaya family - trees native to tropical America and Africa with milky juice and large palmately lobed leaves
Carica papaya, melon tree, papaia, papaya, papaya tree, pawpaw - tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit
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A phylogenetic analysis of the genus Carica L (Caricaceae) based on restriction fragment length variation in a cpDNA intergenic spacer region.
Morden C (1999) A phylogenetic analysis of the genus Carica L (Caricaceae) based on restriction fragment length variation in a cp DNA intergenic spacer region.
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