HAMAMELIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hamamelidae mean? 

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

1. a group of chiefly woody plants considered among the most primitive of angiosperms; perianth poorly developed or lacking; flowers often unisexual and often in catkins and often wind pollinated; contains 23 families including the Betulaceae and Fagaceae (includes the Amentiferae); sometimes classified as a superorder

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAMAMELIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of chiefly woody plants considered among the most primitive of angiosperms; perianth poorly developed or lacking; flowers often unisexual and often in catkins and often wind pollinated; contains 23 families including the Betulaceae and Fagaceae (includes the Amentiferae); sometimes classified as a superorder

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Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Hamamelidae; subclass Hamamelidae

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

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

Meronyms (members of "Hamamelidae"):

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

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

Fagales; order Fagales (an order of dicotyledonous trees of the subclass Hamamelidae)

Amentiferae; group Amentiferae (used in some classification systems for plants that bear catkins)

genus Hamamelidanthum; Hamamelidanthum (genus of fossil plants of the Oligocene having flowers resembling those of the witch hazel; found in Baltic region)

genus Hamamelidoxylon; Hamamelidoxylon (genus of fossil plants having wood identical with or similar to that of the witch hazel)

genus Hamamelites; Hamamelites (genus of fossil plants having leaves similar to those of the witch hazel)

family Hamamelidaceae; Hamamelidaceae; witch-hazel family (comprises genera Hamamelis, Corylopsis, Fothergilla, Liquidambar, Parrotia, and other small genera)

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

class Dicotyledonae; class Dicotyledones; class Magnoliopsida; Dicotyledonae; Dicotyledones; Magnoliopsida (comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with paired cotyledons and net-veined leaves; divided into six (not always well distinguished) subclasses (or superorders): Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae (considered primitive); Caryophyllidae (an early and distinctive offshoot); and three more or less advanced groups: Dilleniidae; Rosidae; Asteridae)