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    ACER

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    Irregular inflected form: acer  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Type genus of the Aceraceae; trees or shrubs having winged fruitplay

    Synonyms:

    Acer; genus Acer

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("Acer" 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 "Acer"):

    maple (any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone)

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

    Aceraceae; family Aceraceae; maple family (a family of trees and shrubs of order Sapindales including the maples)

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