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GENUS LITHOCARPUS

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Meaning:

Tanbark oaks

Synonyms:

genus Lithocarpus; Lithocarpus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Lithocarpus" 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 Lithocarpus"):

Lithocarpus densiflorus; tanbark oak (evergreen tree of the Pacific coast area having large leathery leaves; yields tanbark)

Holonyms ("genus Lithocarpus" 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)

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