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WALNUT FAMILY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does walnut family mean?
• WALNUT FAMILY (noun)
The noun WALNUT FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. trees having usually edible nuts: butternuts; walnuts; hickories; pecans
Familiarity information: WALNUT FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Trees having usually edible nuts: butternuts; walnuts; hickories; pecans
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Juglandaceae; Juglandaceae; walnut family
Hypernyms ("walnut 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)
Meronyms (members of "walnut family"):
genus Juglans; Juglans (type genus of the Juglandaceae)
Carya; genus Carya (genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees; United States and China)
genus Pterocarya; Pterocarya (Asiatic nut trees: wing nuts)
Holonyms ("walnut family" is a member of...):
Juglandales; order Juglandales (coextensive with the family Juglandaceae)
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