beech family

Thesaurus

Noun

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beech family - chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs: beeches; chestnuts; oaks; genera Castanea, Castanopsis, Chrysolepis, Fagus, Lithocarpus, Nothofagus, QuercusFagaceae, family Fagaceaehamamelid dicot family - family of mostly woody dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkinsFagales, order Fagales - an order of dicotyledonous trees of the subclass HamamelidaeFagus, genus Fagus - beechesCastanea, genus Castanea - chestnuts; chinkapinsCastanopsis, genus Castanopsis - evergreen trees and shrubs of warm regions valued for their foliage; southeastern United States and eastern Australia and northern New ZealandChrysolepis, genus Chrysolepis - two species: golden chinkapinsgenus Lithocarpus, Lithocarpus - tanbark oaksgenus Nothofagus, Nothofagus - beeches of temperate southern hemisphere except Africa: southern beechgenus Quercus, Quercus - oaks