birch family

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birch family - monoecious trees and shrubs (including the genera Betula and Alnus and Carpinus and Corylus and Ostrya and Ostryopsis)Betulaceae, family Betulaceaehamamelid 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 HamamelidaeBetula, genus Betula - a genus of trees of the family Betulaceae (such as birches)Alnus, genus Alnus - aldersCarpinaceae, family Carpinaceae, subfamily Carpinaceae - used in some classification systems for the genera Carpinus, Ostryopsis, and OstryopsisCarpinus, genus Carpinus - mostly deciduous monoecious trees or shrubs: hornbeams; sometimes placed in subfamily Carpinaceaegenus Ostrya, Ostrya - deciduous monoecious trees of Europe and Asia and America; sometimes placed in subfamily or family Carpinaceaegenus Ostryopsis, Ostryopsis - deciduous monoecious shrubs of China and Mongolia resembling trees of the genus Ostrya; sometimes placed in subfamily or family CarpinaceaeCorylaceae, family Corylaceae, subfamily Corylaceae - used in some classification systems for the genus CorylusCorylus, genus Corylus - deciduous monoecious nut-bearing shrubs of small trees: hazel; sometimes placed in the subfamily or family Corylaceae