AESCULUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Aesculus mean? 

• AESCULUS (noun)
  The noun AESCULUS has 1 sense:

1. deciduous trees or some shrubs of North America; southeastern Europe; eastern Asia

  Familiarity information: AESCULUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AESCULUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deciduous trees or some shrubs of North America; southeastern Europe; eastern Asia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Aesculus; genus Aesculus

Hypernyms ("Aesculus" is a kind of...):

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Aesculus"):

Aesculus hippocastanum; buckeye; horse chestnut (tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds)

Holonyms ("Aesculus" is a member of...):

family Hippocastanaceae; Hippocastanaceae; horse-chestnut family (trees having showy flowers and inedible nutlike seeds in a leathery capsule)

 Context examples 

The oil extracted from the seeds of Aesculus hippocastanum.

(Aesculus hippocastanum Seed Fluid Extract, NCI Thesaurus)