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GENUS CASTANOPSIS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Evergreen trees and shrubs of warm regions valued for their foliage; southeastern United States and eastern Australia and northern New Zealand

Synonyms:

Castanopsis; genus Castanopsis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Castanopsis" 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 "genus Castanopsis"):

oak chestnut (a tree of the genus Castanopsis)

Holonyms ("genus Castanopsis" 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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