nothofagus
Noun
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Beeches of temperate southern hemisphere except Africa: southern beech (synset 112286417)
is a type of: hamamelid dicot genus - genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkinsmember holonym:
- 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
belongs to: beech family, fagaceae, family fagaceae - chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs: beeches; chestnuts; oaks; genera Castanea, Castanopsis, Chrysolepis, Fagus, Lithocarpus, Nothofagus, Quercussame as: genus nothofagus
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