birch family

1. Monoecious trees and shrubs (including the genera Betula and Alnus and Carpinus and Corylus and Ostrya and Ostryopsis) (synset 112301004)
   is a type of: hamamelid dicot family - family of mostly woody dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins
   member holonym:

   • betula, genus betula - a genus of trees of the family Betulaceae (such as birches)
   • alnus, genus alnus - alders
   • carpinaceae, family carpinaceae, subfamily carpinaceae - used in some classification systems for the genera Carpinus, Ostryopsis, and Ostryopsis
   • carpinus, genus carpinus - mostly deciduous monoecious trees or shrubs: hornbeams; sometimes placed in subfamily Carpinaceae
   • genus ostrya, ostrya - deciduous monoecious trees of Europe and Asia and America; sometimes placed in subfamily or family Carpinaceae
   • genus ostryopsis, ostryopsis - deciduous monoecious shrubs of China and Mongolia resembling trees of the genus Ostrya; sometimes placed in subfamily or family Carpinaceae
   • corylaceae, family corylaceae, subfamily corylaceae - used in some classification systems for the genus Corylus
   • corylus, genus corylus - deciduous monoecious nut-bearing shrubs of small trees: hazel; sometimes placed in the subfamily or family Corylaceae
   belongs to: fagales, order fagales - an order of dicotyledonous trees of the subclass Hamamelidae
   same as: betulaceae, family betulaceae

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