English > genus Nothofagus: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | beeches of temperate southern hemisphere except Africa: southern beech. |
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| Synonym | Nothofagus |
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| Member of | Fagaceae, family Fagaceae, beech family | chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs |
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| Members | Coigue, Nothofagus dombeyi | Chilean evergreen whose leafy boughs are used for thatching |
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| New Zealand beech | Any of several tall New Zealand trees of the genus Nothofagus |
| black beech, Nothofagus solanderi | New Zealand forest / forest tree |
| hard beech, Nothofagus truncata | tall New Zealand tree yielding very hard wood |
| rauli beech, Nothofagus procera | large Chilean timber tree yielding coarse lumber |
| roble beech, Nothofagus obliqua | tall deciduous South American tree |
| silver beech, Nothofagus menziesii | New Zealand beech with usually pale silvery bark |
| southern beech, evergreen beech | Any of various beeches of the southern hemisphere having small usually evergreen leaves |
| Broader | hamamelid dicot genus | genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins |
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| Spanish | genus nothofagus, nothofagus, Nothofagus |
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| Catalan | genus nothofagus, nothofagus, Nothofagus |
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