papaya family

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Noun1.papaya family - trees native to tropical America and Africa with milky juice and large palmately lobed leaves
dilleniid dicot family - family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs
Hypericales, order Hypericales, order Parietales, Parietales - a large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae
Carica, genus Carica - type genus of the Caricaceae; tropical American trees: papayas
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Renner (2012) A dated phylogeny of the papaya family (Caricaceae) reveals the crop's closest relatives and the family's biogeographic history.
Renner, "A dated phytogeny of the papaya family (Caricaceae) reveals the crop's closest relatives and the family's biogeographic history," Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, vol.
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