noun
trees having showy flowers and inedible nutlike seeds in a leathery capsule
• Syn: ↑family Hippocastanaceae, ↑horse-chestnut family
• Hypernyms: ↑dicot family, ↑magnoliopsid family
• Member Holonyms: ↑Sapindales, ↑order Sapindales
• Member Meronyms: ↑Aesculus, ↑genus Aesculus
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\\ˌhipəˌkastəˈnāsēˌē\ noun pluralUsage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Hippocastanum, type genus in former classifications (from hipp- + Greek kastanon chestnut) + -aceae
: a family of trees (order Sapindales) having opposite palmately lobed leaves, showy flowers in large clusters, and nutlike seeds encased in a leathery capsule and including the buckeyes
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Hippocastanaceae /hip-ō-kas-tə-nāˈsi-ē/
plural noun
The horse chestnut family
ORIGIN: hippo-, and Gr kastanon chestnut tree
Useful english dictionary. 2012.