Corchorus

Corchorus is a genus of about 40-100 species of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae, native to tropical and subtropical regions throughout the world. Different common names are used in different contexts, with jute applying to the fibre produced from the plant, and melokhia (with many similar transliterations from the Arabic: ملوخية) applied to the leaves used as a vegetable.
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Noun
1. widely distributed genus of tropical herbs or subshrubs; especially Asia
(synonym) genus Corchorus
(hypernym) dilleniid dicot genus
(member-holonym) Tiliaceae, family Tiliaceae, linden family

Noun
1. any of various plants of the genus Corchorus having large leaves and cymose clusters of yellow flowers; a source of jute
(hypernym) subshrub, suffrutex
(member-holonym) Corchorus, genus Corchorus

(n.)
The common name of the Kerria Japonica or Japan globeflower, a yellow-flowered, perennial, rosaceous plant, seen in old-fashioned gardens.
  

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edible plant; (prob. jute| Corchorus olitorius); poor wild legume (L+S)