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HIPPOCASTANACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hippocastanaceae mean? 

HIPPOCASTANACEAE (noun)
  The noun HIPPOCASTANACEAE has 1 sense:

1. trees having showy flowers and inedible nutlike seeds in a leathery capsuleplay

  Familiarity information: HIPPOCASTANACEAE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HIPPOCASTANACEAE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Trees having showy flowers and inedible nutlike seeds in a leathery capsule

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Hippocastanaceae; Hippocastanaceae; horse-chestnut family

Hypernyms ("Hippocastanaceae" 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)

Meronyms (members of "Hippocastanaceae"):

Aesculus; genus Aesculus (deciduous trees or some shrubs of North America; southeastern Europe; eastern Asia)

Holonyms ("Hippocastanaceae" is a member of...):

order Sapindales; Sapindales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)


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