JUGLANS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Juglans mean? 

• JUGLANS (noun)
  The noun JUGLANS has 1 sense:

1. type genus of the Juglandaceae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUGLANS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Type genus of the Juglandaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Juglans; Juglans

Hypernyms ("Juglans" 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)

Meronyms (members of "Juglans"):

walnut; walnut tree (any of various trees of the genus Juglans)

California black walnut; Juglans californica (medium-sized tree with somewhat aromatic compound leaves and edible nuts)

butternut; butternut tree; Juglans cinerea; white walnut (North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye)

black hickory; black walnut; black walnut tree; Juglans nigra (North American walnut tree with hard dark wood and edible nut)

Circassian walnut; English walnut; English walnut tree; Juglans regia; Persian walnut (Eurasian walnut valued for its large edible nut and its hard richly figured wood; widely cultivated)

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

family Juglandaceae; Juglandaceae; walnut family (trees having usually edible nuts: butternuts; walnuts; hickories; pecans)