genus castanea

1. Chestnuts;
   Chinkapins (synset 112282844)
   is a type of: hamamelid dicot genus - genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins
   member holonym:

   • chestnut, chestnut tree - any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur
   • american chestnut, american sweet chestnut, castanea dentata - large tree found from Maine to Alabama
   • castanea mollissima, chinese chestnut - a small tree with small sweet nuts; wild or naturalized in Korea and China
   • castanea crenata, japanese chestnut - a spreading tree of Japan that has a short trunk
   • allegheny chinkapin, castanea pumila, chinquapin, dwarf chestnut, eastern chinquapin - shrubby chestnut tree of southeastern United States having small edible nuts
   • castanea ozarkensis, chinquapin, ozark chinkapin, ozark chinquapin - shrubby tree closely related to the Allegheny chinkapin but with larger leaves; southern midwestern United States
   belongs to: beech family, fagaceae, family fagaceae - chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs: beeches; chestnuts; oaks; genera Castanea, Castanopsis, Chrysolepis, Fagus, Lithocarpus, Nothofagus, Quercus
   same as: castanea

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