HORSE-CHESTNUT FAMILY
Dictionary entry overview: What does horse-chestnut family mean? • HORSE-CHESTNUT FAMILY (noun)
The noun HORSE-CHESTNUT FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. trees having showy flowers and inedible nutlike seeds in a leathery capsule
Familiarity information: HORSE-CHESTNUT FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• HORSE-CHESTNUT FAMILY (noun)
Meaning:
Trees having showy flowers and inedible nutlike seeds in a leathery capsule
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Hippocastanaceae; Hippocastanaceae; horse-chestnut family
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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