HyperDic: genus_aesculus

English > 1 sense of the expression genus Aesculus:
NOUNplantgenus Aesculus, Aesculusdeciduous trees or some shrubs of North America
English > genus Aesculus: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningdeciduous trees or some shrubs of North America; southeastern Europe; eastern Asia.
SynonymAesculus
Member ofHippocastanaceae, family Hippocastanaceae, horse-chestnut familyTrees having showy flowers and inedible nutlike seeds in a leathery capsule
Membershorse chestnut, buckeye, Aesculus hippocastanumTree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds
Broaderdicot genus, magnoliopsid genusgenus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
Spanishaesculus, genus aesculus
Catalanaesculus, genus aesculus

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