HyperDic: betulaceae

English > 1 sense of the word Betulaceae:
NOUNplantBetulaceae, family Betulaceae, birch familymonoecious trees and shrubs (including the genera ... / genera Betula and Alnus and Carpinus and Corylus and Ostrya and Ostryopsis)
English > Betulaceae: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningmonoecious trees and shrubs (including the genera ... / genera Betula and Alnus and Carpinus and Corylus and Ostrya and Ostryopsis).
Synonymsfamily Betulaceae, birch family
Member ofFagales, order FagalesAn order of dicotyledonous trees of the subclass Hamamelidae
MembersAlnus, genus Alnusalders
Betula, genus BetulaA genus of trees of the family Betulaceae (such as birches)
Carpinaceae, subfamily Carpinaceae, family CarpinaceaeUsed in some classification systems for the genera Carpinus, Ostryopsis, and Ostryopsis
Carpinus, genus CarpinusMostly deciduous monoecious trees or shrubs
Corylaceae, subfamily Corylaceae, family CorylaceaeUsed in some classification systems for the genus Corylus
Corylus, genus Corylusdeciduous monoecious nut-bearing shrubs of small trees
Ostrya, genus Ostryadeciduous monoecious trees of Europe and Asia and America
Ostryopsis, genus Ostryopsisdeciduous monoecious shrubs of China and Mongolia resembling trees of the genus Ostrya
Broaderhamamelid dicot familyfamily of mostly woody dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins
Spanishbetuláceas
CatalanBetulaceae, betulàcia, betulàcies
Adjectivesbetulaceousof or pertaining to or characteristic of trees of the birch family

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