Definition of Calocarpum

1. Noun. A genus of tropical American trees of the family Sapotaceae.

Exact synonyms: Genus Calocarpum
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Family Sapotaceae, Sapodilla Family, Sapotaceae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Calocarpum

Callitris parlatorei
Callitris quadrivalvis
Callitroga
Callophis
Callorhinus
Callorhinus ursinus
Callum
Calluna
Calluna vulgaris
Calmette-Guerin bacillus
Calmette-Guerin vaccine
Calmette test
Calmuck
Calmucks
Calnada pea
Calocarpum (current term)
Calocarpum zapota
Calocedrus
Calocedrus decurrens
Calochortus
Calochortus albus
Calochortus amabilis
Calochortus amoenus
Calochortus elegans
Calochortus kennedyi
Calochortus luteus
Calochortus macrocarpus
Calochortus nuttallii
Calophyllum
Calophyllum calaba

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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