GENUS PTEROCARYA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Pterocarya mean? 

• GENUS PTEROCARYA (noun)
  The noun GENUS PTEROCARYA has 1 sense:

1. Asiatic nut trees: wing nuts

  Familiarity information: GENUS PTEROCARYA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS PTEROCARYA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Asiatic nut trees: wing nuts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Pterocarya; Pterocarya

Hypernyms ("genus Pterocarya" 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 "genus Pterocarya"):

wing-nut; wing nut (any tree of the genus Pterocarya; fruit is a small winged nutlet; Caucasus to southeastern Asia)

Holonyms ("genus Pterocarya" is a member of...):

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