Nothofagus

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A genus of beeches of temperate southern hemisphere except Africa; the southern beech.

Thesaurus

Noun

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Nothofagus - beeches of temperate southern hemisphere except Africa: southern beech genus Nothofagus hamamelid dicot genus - genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins beech family, Fagaceae, family Fagaceae - chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs: beeches; chestnuts; oaks; genera Castanea, Castanopsis, Chrysolepis, Fagus, Lithocarpus, Nothofagus, Quercus evergreen beech, southern beech - any of various beeches of the southern hemisphere having small usually evergreen leaves Coigue, Nothofagus dombeyi - Chilean evergreen whose leafy boughs are used for thatching New Zealand beech - any of several tall New Zealand trees of the genus Nothofagus; some yield useful timber Nothofagus menziesii, silver beech - New Zealand beech with usually pale silvery bark Nothofagus obliqua, roble beech - tall deciduous South American tree Nothofagus procera, rauli beech - large Chilean timber tree yielding coarse lumber black beech, Nothofagus solanderi - New Zealand forest tree hard beech, Nothofagus truncata - tall New Zealand tree yielding very hard wood