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ACER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: acer   

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Type genus of the Aceraceae; trees or shrubs having winged fruit

Synonyms:

Acer; genus Acer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Acer" is a kind of...):

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Acer"):

maple (any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone)

Holonyms ("Acer" is a member of...):

Aceraceae; family Aceraceae; maple family (a family of trees and shrubs of order Sapindales including the maples)

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