NOUN | plant | Aesculus, genus Aesculus | deciduous trees or some shrubs of North America |
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Meaning | deciduous trees or some shrubs of North America; southeastern Europe; eastern Asia. | |
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Synonym | genus Aesculus | |
Member of | Hippocastanaceae, family Hippocastanaceae, horse-chestnut family | Trees having showy flowers and inedible nutlike seeds in a leathery capsule |
Members | horse chestnut, buckeye, Aesculus hippocastanum | Tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds |
Broader | dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
Spanish | aesculus, genus aesculus | |
Catalan | aesculus, genus aesculus |
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