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BIRCH FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Monoecious trees and shrubs (including the genera Betula and Alnus and Carpinus and Corylus and Ostrya and Ostryopsis)
Synonyms:
Betulaceae; birch family; family Betulaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("birch 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 "birch family"):
Betula; genus Betula (a genus of trees of the family Betulaceae (such as birches))
Alnus; genus Alnus (alders)
Carpinaceae; family Carpinaceae; subfamily Carpinaceae (used in some classification systems for the genera Carpinus, Ostryopsis, and Ostryopsis)
Carpinus; genus Carpinus (mostly deciduous monoecious trees or shrubs: hornbeams; sometimes placed in subfamily Carpinaceae)
genus Ostrya; Ostrya (deciduous monoecious trees of Europe and Asia and America; sometimes placed in subfamily or family Carpinaceae)
genus Ostryopsis; Ostryopsis (deciduous monoecious shrubs of China and Mongolia resembling trees of the genus Ostrya; sometimes placed in subfamily or family Carpinaceae)
Corylaceae; family Corylaceae; subfamily Corylaceae (used in some classification systems for the genus Corylus)
Corylus; genus Corylus (deciduous monoecious nut-bearing shrubs of small trees: hazel; sometimes placed in the subfamily or family Corylaceae)
Holonyms ("birch family" is a member of...):
Fagales; order Fagales (an order of dicotyledonous trees of the subclass Hamamelidae)
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