HAMAMELITES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hamamelites mean? 

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

1. genus of fossil plants having leaves similar to those of the witch hazel

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAMAMELITES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of fossil plants having leaves similar to those of the witch hazel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Hamamelites; Hamamelites

Hypernyms ("Hamamelites" 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)

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

Hamamelidae; subclass Hamamelidae (a group of chiefly woody plants considered among the most primitive of angiosperms; perianth poorly developed or lacking; flowers often unisexual and often in catkins and often wind pollinated; contains 23 families including the Betulaceae and Fagaceae (includes the Amentiferae); sometimes classified as a superorder)