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GENUS CASTANEA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Chestnuts; chinkapins
Synonyms:
Castanea; genus Castanea
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Castanea" is a kind of...):
hamamelid dicot genus (genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins)
Meronyms (members of "genus Castanea"):
chestnut; chestnut tree (any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur)
American chestnut; American sweet chestnut; Castanea dentata (large tree found from Maine to Alabama)
Castanea mollissima; Chinese chestnut (a small tree with small sweet nuts; wild or naturalized in Korea and China)
Castanea crenata; Japanese chestnut (a spreading tree of Japan that has a short trunk)
Allegheny chinkapin; Castanea pumila; chinquapin; dwarf chestnut; eastern chinquapin (shrubby chestnut tree of southeastern United States having small edible nuts)
Castanea ozarkensis; chinquapin; Ozark chinkapin; Ozark chinquapin (shrubby tree closely related to the Allegheny chinkapin but with larger leaves; southern midwestern United States)
Holonyms ("genus Castanea" is a member of...):
beech family; Fagaceae; family Fagaceae (chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs: beeches; chestnuts; oaks; genera Castanea, Castanopsis, Chrysolepis, Fagus, Lithocarpus, Nothofagus, Quercus)
