English > birch family: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | monoecious trees and shrubs (including the genera ... / genera Betula and Alnus and Carpinus and Corylus and Ostrya and Ostryopsis). |
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| Synonyms | Betulaceae, family Betulaceae |
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| Member of | Fagales, order Fagales | An order of dicotyledonous trees of the subclass Hamamelidae |
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| Members | Alnus, genus Alnus | alders |
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| Betula, genus Betula | A genus of trees of the family Betulaceae (such as birches) |
| Carpinaceae, subfamily Carpinaceae, family Carpinaceae | Used in some classification systems for the genera Carpinus, Ostryopsis, and Ostryopsis |
| Carpinus, genus Carpinus | Mostly deciduous monoecious trees or shrubs |
| Corylaceae, subfamily Corylaceae, family Corylaceae | Used in some classification systems for the genus Corylus |
| Corylus, genus Corylus | deciduous monoecious nut-bearing shrubs of small trees |
| Ostrya, genus Ostrya | deciduous monoecious trees of Europe and Asia and America |
| Ostryopsis, genus Ostryopsis | deciduous monoecious shrubs of China and Mongolia resembling trees of the genus Ostrya |
| 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 | betuláceas |
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| Catalan | Betulaceae, betulàcia, betulàcies |
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