CARPINACEAE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does Carpinaceae mean?

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

1. used in some classification systems for the genera Carpinus, Ostryopsis, and Ostryopsis

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

Dictionary entry details

• CARPINACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Used in some classification systems for the genera Carpinus, Ostryopsis, and Ostryopsis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Carpinaceae; family Carpinaceae; subfamily Carpinaceae

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

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

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

Betulaceae; birch family; family Betulaceae (monoecious trees and shrubs (including the genera Betula and Alnus and Carpinus and Corylus and Ostrya and Ostryopsis))

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