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FAMILY JUGLANDACEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Trees having usually edible nuts: butternuts; walnuts; hickories; pecans
Synonyms:
family Juglandaceae; Juglandaceae; walnut family
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Juglandaceae" 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 Juglandaceae"):
genus Juglans; Juglans (type genus of the Juglandaceae)
Carya; genus Carya (genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees; United States and China)
genus Pterocarya; Pterocarya (Asiatic nut trees: wing nuts)
Holonyms ("family Juglandaceae" is a member of...):
Juglandales; order Juglandales (coextensive with the family Juglandaceae)
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