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Noun: Caricaceae
  1. Trees native to tropical America and Africa with milky juice and large palmately lobed leaves
    - family Caricaceae, papaya family

Type of: dilleniid dicot family

Part of: Hypericales, order Hypericales, order Parietales, Parietales

Encyclopedia: Caricaceae