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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a family of chiefly tropical trees or shrubs.

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  • noun chiefly tropical trees or shrubs

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Examples

  • XII it appeared he'd dropped his morbid obsessions and gone back to working with annonaceae, concentrating on-a species Maimon hadn ', t mentioned: a. zingiber.

    Blood Test Kellerman, Jonathan 1986

  • There were detailed descriptions of crossbreeding experiments between the cherimoya and other members of annonaceae.

    Blood Test Kellerman, Jonathan 1986

  • Then there was yet another turn in the convoluted journey through Swope’s mind: in the first chapter of Volume XII it appeared he’d dropped his morbid obsessions and gone back to working with annonaceae, concentrating on a species Maimon hadn’t mentioned: a. zingiber.

    Blood Test Jonathan Kellerman 1986

  • Then there was yet another turn in the convoluted journey through Swope’s mind: in the first chapter of Volume XII it appeared he’d dropped his morbid obsessions and gone back to working with annonaceae, concentrating on a species Maimon hadn’t mentioned: a. zingiber.

    Blood Test Jonathan Kellerman 1986

  • Then there was yet another turn in the convoluted journey through Swope’s mind: in the first chapter of Volume XII it appeared he’d dropped his morbid obsessions and gone back to working with annonaceae, concentrating on a species Maimon hadn’t mentioned: a. zingiber.

    Blood Test Jonathan Kellerman 1986

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