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NOTHOFAGUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Nothofagus mean?
• NOTHOFAGUS (noun)
The noun NOTHOFAGUS has 1 sense:
1. beeches of temperate southern hemisphere except Africa: southern beech
Familiarity information: NOTHOFAGUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Beeches of temperate southern hemisphere except Africa: southern beech
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Nothofagus; Nothofagus
Hypernyms ("Nothofagus" 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 "Nothofagus"):
evergreen beech; southern beech (any of various beeches of the southern hemisphere having small usually evergreen leaves)
Coigue; Nothofagus dombeyi (Chilean evergreen whose leafy boughs are used for thatching)
New Zealand beech (any of several tall New Zealand trees of the genus Nothofagus; some yield useful timber)
Nothofagus menziesii; silver beech (New Zealand beech with usually pale silvery bark)
Nothofagus obliqua; roble beech (tall deciduous South American tree)
Nothofagus procera; rauli beech (large Chilean timber tree yielding coarse lumber)
black beech; Nothofagus solanderi (New Zealand forest tree)
hard beech; Nothofagus truncata (tall New Zealand tree yielding very hard wood)
Holonyms ("Nothofagus" 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)
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