genus Nothofagus

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genus Nothofagus - beeches of temperate southern hemisphere except Africa: southern beechNothofagushamamelid dicot genus - genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkinsbeech family, Fagaceae, family Fagaceae - chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs: beeches; chestnuts; oaks; genera Castanea, Castanopsis, Chrysolepis, Fagus, Lithocarpus, Nothofagus, Quercusevergreen beech, southern beech - any of various beeches of the southern hemisphere having small usually evergreen leavesCoigue, Nothofagus dombeyi - Chilean evergreen whose leafy boughs are used for thatchingNew Zealand beech - any of several tall New Zealand trees of the genus Nothofagus; some yield useful timberNothofagus menziesii, silver beech - New Zealand beech with usually pale silvery barkNothofagus obliqua, roble beech - tall deciduous South American treeNothofagus procera, rauli beech - large Chilean timber tree yielding coarse lumberblack beech, Nothofagus solanderi - New Zealand forest treehard beech, Nothofagus truncata - tall New Zealand tree yielding very hard wood