English > beech family: 1 sense > noun 1, plantMeaning | chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs: beeches; chestnuts; oaks; genera Castanea, Castanopsis, Chrysolepis, Fagus, Lithocarpus, Nothofagus, Quercus. |
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Synonyms | Fagaceae, family Fagaceae |
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Member of | Fagales, order Fagales | An order of dicotyledonous trees of the subclass Hamamelidae |
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Members | Castanea, genus Castanea | chestnuts |
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Castanopsis, genus Castanopsis | evergreen trees and shrubs of warm regions valued for their foliage |
Chrysolepis, genus Chrysolepis | Two species |
Fagus, genus Fagus | beeches |
Lithocarpus, genus Lithocarpus | tanbark oaks |
Nothofagus, genus Nothofagus | beeches of temperate southern hemisphere except Africa |
Quercus, genus Quercus | Oaks |
Broader | hamamelid dicot family | family of mostly woody dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins |
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Spanish | fagáceas |
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Catalan | Fagaceae, fagàcia, fagàcies |
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