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JUGLANS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Juglans mean?
• JUGLANS (noun)
The noun JUGLANS has 1 sense:
1. type genus of the Juglandaceae
Familiarity information: JUGLANS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Type genus of the Juglandaceae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Juglans; Juglans
Hypernyms ("Juglans" is a kind of...):
dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "Juglans"):
walnut; walnut tree (any of various trees of the genus Juglans)
California black walnut; Juglans californica (medium-sized tree with somewhat aromatic compound leaves and edible nuts)
butternut; butternut tree; Juglans cinerea; white walnut (North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye)
black hickory; black walnut; black walnut tree; Juglans nigra (North American walnut tree with hard dark wood and edible nut)
Circassian walnut; English walnut; English walnut tree; Juglans regia; Persian walnut (Eurasian walnut valued for its large edible nut and its hard richly figured wood; widely cultivated)
Holonyms ("Juglans" is a member of...):
family Juglandaceae; Juglandaceae; walnut family (trees having usually edible nuts: butternuts; walnuts; hickories; pecans)
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