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

1 sense of birch family

Sense 1
Betulaceae, family Betulaceae, birch family -- (monoecious trees and shrubs (including the genera Betula and Alnus and Carpinus and Corylus and Ostrya and Ostryopsis))
       => hamamelid dicot family -- (family of mostly woody dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins)