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    GENUS AESCULUS

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Deciduous trees or some shrubs of North America; southeastern Europe; eastern Asiaplay

    Synonyms:

    Aesculus; genus Aesculus

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus Aesculus" 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 "genus Aesculus"):

    Aesculus hippocastanum; buckeye; horse chestnut (tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds)

    Holonyms ("genus Aesculus" is a member of...):

    family Hippocastanaceae; Hippocastanaceae; horse-chestnut family (trees having showy flowers and inedible nutlike seeds in a leathery capsule)

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