JUGLANDACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Juglandaceae mean? 

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

1. trees having usually edible nuts: butternuts; walnuts; hickories; pecans

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUGLANDACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Trees having usually edible nuts: butternuts; walnuts; hickories; pecans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Juglandaceae; Juglandaceae; walnut family

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

dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Juglandaceae"):

genus Juglans; Juglans (type genus of the Juglandaceae)

Carya; genus Carya (genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees; United States and China)

genus Pterocarya; Pterocarya (Asiatic nut trees: wing nuts)

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

Juglandales; order Juglandales (coextensive with the family Juglandaceae)