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GENUS FAGUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Beeches
Synonyms:
Fagus; genus Fagus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Fagus" 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 Fagus"):
beech; beech tree (any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions)
common beech; European beech; Fagus sylvatica (large European beech with minutely-toothed leaves; widely planted as an ornamental in North America)
copper beech; Fagus purpurea; Fagus sylvatica atropunicea; Fagus sylvatica purpurea; purple beech (variety of European beech with shining purple or copper-colored leaves)
American beech; Fagus americana; Fagus grandifolia; red beech; white beech (North American forest tree with light green leaves and edible nuts)
Fagus pendula; Fagus sylvatica pendula; weeping beech (variety of European beech with pendulous limbs)
Japanese beech (a beech native to Japan having soft light yellowish-brown wood)
Holonyms ("genus Fagus" 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)
