BEECH FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does beech family mean? 

• BEECH FAMILY (noun)
  The noun BEECH FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs: beeches; chestnuts; oaks; genera Castanea, Castanopsis, Chrysolepis, Fagus, Lithocarpus, Nothofagus, Quercus

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 Dictionary entry details 

• BEECH FAMILY (noun)

Meaning:

Chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs: beeches; chestnuts; oaks; genera Castanea, Castanopsis, Chrysolepis, Fagus, Lithocarpus, Nothofagus, Quercus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

beech family; Fagaceae; family Fagaceae

Hypernyms ("beech family" is a kind of...):

hamamelid dicot family (family of mostly woody dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins)

Meronyms (members of "beech family"):

Fagus; genus Fagus (beeches)

Castanea; genus Castanea (chestnuts; chinkapins)

Castanopsis; genus Castanopsis (evergreen trees and shrubs of warm regions valued for their foliage; southeastern United States and eastern Australia and northern New Zealand)

Chrysolepis; genus Chrysolepis (two species: golden chinkapins)

genus Lithocarpus; Lithocarpus (tanbark oaks)

genus Nothofagus; Nothofagus (beeches of temperate southern hemisphere except Africa: southern beech)

genus Quercus; Quercus (oaks)

Holonyms ("beech family" is a member of...):

Fagales; order Fagales (an order of dicotyledonous trees of the subclass Hamamelidae)