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WALNUT FAMILY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Trees having usually edible nuts: butternuts; walnuts; hickories; pecans

Synonyms:

family Juglandaceae; Juglandaceae; walnut family

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("walnut 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 "walnut family"):

genus Juglans; Juglans (type genus of the Juglandaceae)

Carya; genus Carya (genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees; United States and China)

genus Pterocarya; Pterocarya (Asiatic nut trees: wing nuts)

Holonyms ("walnut family" is a member of...):

Juglandales; order Juglandales (coextensive with the family Juglandaceae)

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