Fagaceae

prop. n.

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a natural family of chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs, including beeches, chestnuts, and oaks; it includes the genera Castanea; Castanopsis; Chrysolepis; Fagus; Lithocarpus; Nothofagus; and Quercus.

Thesaurus

Noun

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Fagaceae - chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs: beeches; chestnuts; oaks; genera Castanea, Castanopsis, Chrysolepis, Fagus, Lithocarpus, Nothofagus, Quercus beech family, family Fagaceae hamamelid dicot family - family of mostly woody dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins Fagales, order Fagales - an order of dicotyledonous trees of the subclass Hamamelidae Fagus, genus Fagus - beeches Castanea, genus Castanea - chestnuts; chinkapins Castanopsis, genus Castanopsis - evergreen trees and shrubs of warm regions valued for their foliage; southeastern United States and eastern Australia and northern New Zealand Chrysolepis, genus Chrysolepis - two species: golden chinkapins genus Lithocarpus, Lithocarpus - tanbark oaks genus Nothofagus, Nothofagus - beeches of temperate southern hemisphere except Africa: southern beech genus Quercus, Quercus - oaks