English > Hamamelidae: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | A group of chiefly woody plants considered among the most primitive of angiosperms; perianth poorly developed or lacking; flowers often unisexual and often in catkins and often wind pollinated; contains 23 families including the Betulaceae and Fagaceae (includes the Amentiferae); sometimes classified as a superorder. |
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| Synonym | subclass Hamamelidae |
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| Member of | Dicotyledones, class Dicotyledones, Dicotyledonae, class Dicotyledonae, Magnoliopsida, class Magnoliopsida | Comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with paired cotyledons and net-veined leaves |
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| Members | Amentiferae, group Amentiferae | Used in some classification systems for plants that bear catkins |
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| Fagales, order Fagales | An order of dicotyledonous trees of the subclass Hamamelidae |
| Hamamelidaceae, family Hamamelidaceae, witch-hazel family | Comprises genera Hamamelis, Corylopsis, Fothergilla, Liquidambar, Parrotia, and other small genera |
| Hamamelidanthum, genus Hamamelidanthum | genus of fossil plants of the Oligocene having flowers resembling those of the witch hazel |
| Hamamelidoxylon, genus Hamamelidoxylon | genus of fossil plants having wood identical with or similar to that of the witch hazel |
| Hamamelites, genus Hamamelites | genus of fossil plants having leaves similar to those of the witch hazel |
| hamamelid dicot family | family of mostly woody dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins |
| hamamelid dicot genus | genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins |
| Broader | class | (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders |
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| Spanish | hamamelidales |
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| Catalan | hamamelidals |
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