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PTEROCARYA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Asiatic nut trees: wing nuts

Synonyms:

genus Pterocarya; Pterocarya

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Pterocarya" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "Pterocarya"):

wing-nut; wing nut (any tree of the genus Pterocarya; fruit is a small winged nutlet; Caucasus to southeastern Asia)

Holonyms ("Pterocarya" is a member of...):

family Juglandaceae; Juglandaceae; walnut family (trees having usually edible nuts: butternuts; walnuts; hickories; pecans)

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