QUERCUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Quercus mean? 

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

1. oaks

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUERCUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Oaks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Quercus; Quercus

Hypernyms ("Quercus" is a kind of...):

hamamelid dicot genus (genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins)

Meronyms (members of "Quercus"):

oak; oak tree (a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves)

Japanese oak; Quercus grosseserrata; Quercus mongolica (oak with moderately light fine-grained wood; Japan)

huckleberry oak; Quercus vaccinifolia (a low spreading or prostrate shrub of southwestern United States with small acorns and leaves resembling those of the huckleberry)

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

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