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FAMILY FAGACEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs: beeches; chestnuts; oaks; genera Castanea, Castanopsis, Chrysolepis, Fagus, Lithocarpus, Nothofagus, Quercus
Synonyms:
beech family; Fagaceae; family Fagaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Fagaceae" is a kind of...):
hamamelid dicot family (family of mostly woody dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins)
Meronyms (members of "family Fagaceae"):
Fagus; genus Fagus (beeches)
Castanea; genus Castanea (chestnuts; chinkapins)
Castanopsis; genus Castanopsis (evergreen trees and shrubs of warm regions valued for their foliage; southeastern United States and eastern Australia and northern New Zealand)
Chrysolepis; genus Chrysolepis (two species: golden chinkapins)
genus Lithocarpus; Lithocarpus (tanbark oaks)
genus Nothofagus; Nothofagus (beeches of temperate southern hemisphere except Africa: southern beech)
genus Quercus; Quercus (oaks)
Holonyms ("family Fagaceae" is a member of...):
Fagales; order Fagales (an order of dicotyledonous trees of the subclass Hamamelidae)
