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beech family

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Noun1.beech family - chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs: beeches; chestnuts; oaks; genera Castanea, Castanopsis, Chrysolepis, Fagus, Lithocarpus, Nothofagus, Quercus
Fagaceae, 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
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