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    FAGUS

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Beechesplay

    Synonyms:

    Fagus; genus Fagus

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("Fagus" 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 "Fagus"):

    beech; beech tree (any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions)

    common beech; European beech; Fagus sylvatica (large European beech with minutely-toothed leaves; widely planted as an ornamental in North America)

    copper beech; Fagus purpurea; Fagus sylvatica atropunicea; Fagus sylvatica purpurea; purple beech (variety of European beech with shining purple or copper-colored leaves)

    American beech; Fagus americana; Fagus grandifolia; red beech; white beech (North American forest tree with light green leaves and edible nuts)

    Fagus pendula; Fagus sylvatica pendula; weeping beech (variety of European beech with pendulous limbs)

    Japanese beech (a beech native to Japan having soft light yellowish-brown wood)

    Holonyms ("Fagus" 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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