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HORSE-CHESTNUT FAMILY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Trees having showy flowers and inedible nutlike seeds in a leathery capsule

Synonyms:

family Hippocastanaceae; Hippocastanaceae; horse-chestnut family

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("horse-chestnut family" is a kind of...):

dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "horse-chestnut family"):

Aesculus; genus Aesculus (deciduous trees or some shrubs of North America; southeastern Europe; eastern Asia)

Holonyms ("horse-chestnut family" is a member of...):

order Sapindales; Sapindales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)

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