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FAMILY HIPPOCASTANACEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Trees having showy flowers and inedible nutlike seeds in a leathery capsule
Synonyms:
family Hippocastanaceae; Hippocastanaceae; horse-chestnut family
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Hippocastanaceae" 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 "family Hippocastanaceae"):
Aesculus; genus Aesculus (deciduous trees or some shrubs of North America; southeastern Europe; eastern Asia)
Holonyms ("family Hippocastanaceae" is a member of...):
order Sapindales; Sapindales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)
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