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HAMAMELID DICOT FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Family of mostly woody dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("hamamelid dicot family" is a kind of...):
dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hamamelid dicot family"):
beech family; Fagaceae; family Fagaceae (chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs: beeches; chestnuts; oaks; genera Castanea, Castanopsis, Chrysolepis, Fagus, Lithocarpus, Nothofagus, Quercus)
Betulaceae; birch family; family Betulaceae (monoecious trees and shrubs (including the genera Betula and Alnus and Carpinus and Corylus and Ostrya and Ostryopsis))
Carpinaceae; family Carpinaceae; subfamily Carpinaceae (used in some classification systems for the genera Carpinus, Ostryopsis, and Ostryopsis)
Corylaceae; family Corylaceae; subfamily Corylaceae (used in some classification systems for the genus Corylus)
family Hamamelidaceae; Hamamelidaceae; witch-hazel family (comprises genera Hamamelis, Corylopsis, Fothergilla, Liquidambar, Parrotia, and other small genera)
family Salicaceae; Salicaceae; willow family (two genera of trees or shrubs having hairy catkins: Salix; Populus)
Holonyms ("hamamelid dicot family" is a member of...):
Hamamelidae; subclass Hamamelidae (a group of chiefly woody plants considered among the most primitive of angiosperms; perianth poorly developed or lacking; flowers often unisexual and often in catkins and often wind pollinated; contains 23 families including the Betulaceae and Fagaceae (includes the Amentiferae); sometimes classified as a superorder)
