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    FAGACEAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs: beeches; chestnuts; oaks; genera Castanea, Castanopsis, Chrysolepis, Fagus, Lithocarpus, Nothofagus, Quercusplay

    Synonyms:

    beech family; Fagaceae; family Fagaceae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    hamamelid dicot family (family of mostly woody dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins)

    Meronyms (members of "Fagaceae"):

    Fagus; genus Fagus (beeches)

    Castanea; genus Castanea (chestnuts; chinkapins)

    Castanopsis; genus Castanopsis (evergreen trees and shrubs of warm regions valued for their foliage; southeastern United States and eastern Australia and northern New Zealand)

    Chrysolepis; genus Chrysolepis (two species: golden chinkapins)

    genus Lithocarpus; Lithocarpus (tanbark oaks)

    genus Nothofagus; Nothofagus (beeches of temperate southern hemisphere except Africa: southern beech)

    genus Quercus; Quercus (oaks)

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

    Fagales; order Fagales (an order of dicotyledonous trees of the subclass Hamamelidae)

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