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Capparis

noun
1.
Tropical or subtropical evergreen shrubs or small trees.  Synonym: genus Capparis.



Related searches:
Capparis arborea
Capparis cynophallophora
Capparis flexuosa
Capparis mitchellii
Capparis spinosa


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"Capparis" Quotes from Famous Books



... to preserve these wretched puns. In the original we have "O spray (or branch) of capparis-shrub (araki) which has been thinned of leaf and fruit (tujna, i.e., whose fruit, the hymen, has been plucked before and not by me) I see thee (araka) ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton


Words linked to "Capparis" :   caper, genus Capparis, family Capparidaceae, caper family, Capparis mitchellii, dilleniid dicot genus, Capparidaceae


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