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    HORSE-CHESTNUT FAMILY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Trees having showy flowers and inedible nutlike seeds in a leathery capsuleplay

    Synonyms:

    family Hippocastanaceae; Hippocastanaceae; horse-chestnut family

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("horse-chestnut 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)

    Meronyms (members of "horse-chestnut family"):

    Aesculus; genus Aesculus (deciduous trees or some shrubs of North America; southeastern Europe; eastern Asia)

    Holonyms ("horse-chestnut family" is a member of...):

    order Sapindales; Sapindales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)

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