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Aesculus

noun

deciduous trees or some shrubs of North America; southeastern Europe; eastern Asia

• Syn: ↑genus Aesculus

• Hypernyms: ↑dicot genus, ↑magnoliopsid genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Hippocastanaceae, ↑family Hippocastanaceae, ↑horse-chestnut family

• Member Meronyms: ↑horse chestnut, ↑buckeye, ↑Aesculus hippocastanum

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\\ˈeskyələs\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, an oak — more at oak

: a genus of trees and shrubs (family Hippocastanaceae) found in north temperate regions with palmately divided leaves, showy flowers in ample panicles, and large shiny seeds — see buckeye, horse chestnut

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Aesculus /ēsˈkū-ləs/

noun

The horse-chestnut genus of the family Hippocastanaceae

ORIGIN: L aesculus a species of oak

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aesˈcūlin noun

A glucoside in horse-chestnut bark

Useful english dictionary. 2012.