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Malpighia [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A genus of tropical American shrubs with opposite leaves and small white or reddish flowers. The drupes of Malpighia urens are eaten under the name of Barbadoes cherries.

Malpighiaceous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of tropical trees and shrubs (Malpighiaceae), some of them climbing plants, and their stems forming many of the curious lianes of South American forests.

Malpighian [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Marcello Malpighi, an Italian anatomist of the 17th century.