FAMILY CARPINACEAE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Carpinaceae mean? 

• FAMILY CARPINACEAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY CARPINACEAE has 1 sense:

1. used in some classification systems for the genera Carpinus, Ostryopsis, and Ostryopsis

  Familiarity information: FAMILY CARPINACEAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY CARPINACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Used in some classification systems for the genera Carpinus, Ostryopsis, and Ostryopsis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Carpinaceae; family Carpinaceae; subfamily Carpinaceae

Hypernyms ("family Carpinaceae" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("family Carpinaceae" 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))