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FAMILY BETULACEAE

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Meaning:

Monoecious trees and shrubs (including the genera Betula and Alnus and Carpinus and Corylus and Ostrya and Ostryopsis)play

Synonyms:

Betulaceae; birch family; family Betulaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("family Betulaceae" 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 "family Betulaceae"):

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 ("family Betulaceae" is a member of...):

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

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