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FAGALES

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Meaning:

An order of dicotyledonous trees of the subclass Hamamelidae

Synonyms:

Fagales; order Fagales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

plant order (the order of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Fagales"):

beech family; Fagaceae; family Fagaceae (chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs: beeches; chestnuts; oaks; genera Castanea, Castanopsis, Chrysolepis, Fagus, Lithocarpus, Nothofagus, Quercus)

Betulaceae; birch family; family Betulaceae (monoecious trees and shrubs (including the genera Betula and Alnus and Carpinus and Corylus and Ostrya and Ostryopsis))

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

Hamamelidae; subclass Hamamelidae (a group of chiefly woody plants considered among the most primitive of angiosperms; perianth poorly developed or lacking; flowers often unisexual and often in catkins and often wind pollinated; contains 23 families including the Betulaceae and Fagaceae (includes the Amentiferae); sometimes classified as a superorder)

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