GENUS CASTANEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Castanea mean? 

• GENUS CASTANEA (noun)
  The noun GENUS CASTANEA has 1 sense:

1. chestnuts; chinkapins

  Familiarity information: GENUS CASTANEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CASTANEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Chestnuts; chinkapins

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Castanea; genus Castanea

Hypernyms ("genus Castanea" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Castanea"):

chestnut; chestnut tree (any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur)

American chestnut; American sweet chestnut; Castanea dentata (large tree found from Maine to Alabama)

Castanea mollissima; Chinese chestnut (a small tree with small sweet nuts; wild or naturalized in Korea and China)

Castanea crenata; Japanese chestnut (a spreading tree of Japan that has a short trunk)

Allegheny chinkapin; Castanea pumila; chinquapin; dwarf chestnut; eastern chinquapin (shrubby chestnut tree of southeastern United States having small edible nuts)

Castanea ozarkensis; chinquapin; Ozark chinkapin; Ozark chinquapin (shrubby tree closely related to the Allegheny chinkapin but with larger leaves; southern midwestern United States)

Holonyms ("genus Castanea" is a member of...):

beech family; Fagaceae; family Fagaceae (chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs: beeches; chestnuts; oaks; genera Castanea, Castanopsis, Chrysolepis, Fagus, Lithocarpus, Nothofagus, Quercus)