Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun beech_family

1 sense of beech family

Sense 1
Fagaceae, family Fagaceae, beech family -- (chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs: beeches; chestnuts; oaks; genera Castanea, Castanopsis, Chrysolepis, Fagus, Lithocarpus, Nothofagus, Quercus)
       => hamamelid dicot family -- (family of mostly woody dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins)