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QUERCUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Oaks
Synonyms:
genus Quercus; Quercus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Quercus" is a kind of...):
hamamelid dicot genus (genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins)
Meronyms (members of "Quercus"):
oak; oak tree (a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves)
Japanese oak; Quercus grosseserrata; Quercus mongolica (oak with moderately light fine-grained wood; Japan)
huckleberry oak; Quercus vaccinifolia (a low spreading or prostrate shrub of southwestern United States with small acorns and leaves resembling those of the huckleberry)
Holonyms ("Quercus" is a member of...):
beech family; Fagaceae; family Fagaceae (chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs: beeches; chestnuts; oaks; genera Castanea, Castanopsis, Chrysolepis, Fagus, Lithocarpus, Nothofagus, Quercus)
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