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NOTHOFAGUS

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Meaning:

Beeches of temperate southern hemisphere except Africa: southern beech

Synonyms:

genus Nothofagus; Nothofagus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Nothofagus" 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 "Nothofagus"):

evergreen beech; southern beech (any of various beeches of the southern hemisphere having small usually evergreen leaves)

Coigue; Nothofagus dombeyi (Chilean evergreen whose leafy boughs are used for thatching)

New Zealand beech (any of several tall New Zealand trees of the genus Nothofagus; some yield useful timber)

Nothofagus menziesii; silver beech (New Zealand beech with usually pale silvery bark)

Nothofagus obliqua; roble beech (tall deciduous South American tree)

Nothofagus procera; rauli beech (large Chilean timber tree yielding coarse lumber)

black beech; Nothofagus solanderi (New Zealand forest tree)

hard beech; Nothofagus truncata (tall New Zealand tree yielding very hard wood)

Holonyms ("Nothofagus" 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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