NOUN | plant | family Hippocastanaceae, Hippocastanaceae, horse-chestnut family | trees having showy flowers and inedible nutlike seeds in a leathery capsule |
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Meaning | Trees having showy flowers and inedible nutlike seeds in a leathery capsule. | |
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Synonyms | Hippocastanaceae, horse-chestnut family | |
Member of | Sapindales, order Sapindales | An order of dicotyledonous plants |
Members | Aesculus, genus Aesculus | deciduous trees or some shrubs of North America |
Broader | dicot family, magnoliopsid family | family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
Spanish | hipocastanáceas |
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