Carica

Thesaurus

Noun

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Carica - type genus of the Caricaceae; tropical American trees: papayasgenus Caricadilleniid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbsCaricaceae, family Caricaceae, papaya family - trees native to tropical America and Africa with milky juice and large palmately lobed leavesCarica 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