GENUS LITHOCARPUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Lithocarpus mean? 

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

1. tanbark oaks

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS LITHOCARPUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tanbark oaks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Lithocarpus; Lithocarpus

Hypernyms ("genus Lithocarpus" 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 Lithocarpus"):

Lithocarpus densiflorus; tanbark oak (evergreen tree of the Pacific coast area having large leathery leaves; yields tanbark)

Holonyms ("genus Lithocarpus" 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)