HAMAMELID DICOT GENUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hamamelid dicot genus mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAMAMELID DICOT GENUS (noun)

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Meaning:

Genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("hamamelid dicot genus" is a kind of...):

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus 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 genus"):

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)

Betula; genus Betula (a genus of trees of the family Betulaceae (such as birches))

Alnus; genus Alnus (alders)

Carpinus; genus Carpinus (mostly deciduous monoecious trees or shrubs: hornbeams; sometimes placed in subfamily Carpinaceae)

genus Ostrya; Ostrya (deciduous monoecious trees of Europe and Asia and America; sometimes placed in subfamily or family Carpinaceae)

genus Ostryopsis; Ostryopsis (deciduous monoecious shrubs of China and Mongolia resembling trees of the genus Ostrya; sometimes placed in subfamily or family Carpinaceae)

Corylus; genus Corylus (deciduous monoecious nut-bearing shrubs of small trees: hazel; sometimes placed in the subfamily or family Corylaceae)

genus Salix; Salix (a large and widespread genus varying in size from small shrubs to large trees: willows)

genus Populus; Populus (a genus of trees of the family Salicaceae that is found in the northern hemisphere; poplars)

Holonyms ("hamamelid dicot genus" 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)