CORYLACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Corylaceae mean? 

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

1. used in some classification systems for the genus Corylus

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORYLACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Used in some classification systems for the genus Corylus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Corylaceae; family Corylaceae; subfamily Corylaceae

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

hamamelid dicot family (family of mostly woody dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins)

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

Betulaceae; birch family; family Betulaceae (monoecious trees and shrubs (including the genera Betula and Alnus and Carpinus and Corylus and Ostrya and Ostryopsis))