noun
trees having usually edible nuts: butternuts; walnuts; hickories; pecans
• Syn: ↑family Juglandaceae, ↑walnut family
• Hypernyms: ↑dicot family, ↑magnoliopsid family
• Member Holonyms: ↑Juglandales, ↑order Juglandales
• Member Meronyms: ↑Juglans, ↑genus Juglans, ↑Carya, ↑genus Carya, ↑Pterocarya, ↑genus Pterocarya
Useful english dictionary. 2012.