HAMAMELID DICOT FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hamamelid dicot family mean? 

• HAMAMELID DICOT FAMILY (noun)
  The noun HAMAMELID DICOT FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. family of mostly woody dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins

  Familiarity information: HAMAMELID DICOT FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAMAMELID DICOT FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Family of mostly woody dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("hamamelid dicot family" 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hamamelid dicot family"):

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

Betulaceae; birch family; family Betulaceae (monoecious trees and shrubs (including the genera Betula and Alnus and Carpinus and Corylus and Ostrya and Ostryopsis))

Carpinaceae; family Carpinaceae; subfamily Carpinaceae (used in some classification systems for the genera Carpinus, Ostryopsis, and Ostryopsis)

Corylaceae; family Corylaceae; subfamily Corylaceae (used in some classification systems for the genus Corylus)

family Hamamelidaceae; Hamamelidaceae; witch-hazel family (comprises genera Hamamelis, Corylopsis, Fothergilla, Liquidambar, Parrotia, and other small genera)

family Salicaceae; Salicaceae; willow family (two genera of trees or shrubs having hairy catkins: Salix; Populus)

Holonyms ("hamamelid dicot family" is a member of...):

Hamamelidae; subclass Hamamelidae (a group of chiefly woody plants considered among the most primitive of angiosperms; perianth poorly developed or lacking; flowers often unisexual and often in catkins and often wind pollinated; contains 23 families including the Betulaceae and Fagaceae (includes the Amentiferae); sometimes classified as a superorder)