Definition of Family Fagaceae

1. Noun. Chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs: beeches; chestnuts; oaks; genera Castanea, Castanopsis, Chrysolepis, Fagus, Lithocarpus, Nothofagus, Quercus.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Fagaceae

family Equidae
family Equisetaceae
family Erethizontidae
family Ericaceae
family Erinaceidae
family Eriocaulaceae
family Erysiphaceae
family Erythroxylaceae
family Eschrichtiidae
family Esocidae
family Euglenaceae
family Euphorbiaceae
family Eurylaimidae
family Exocoetidae
family Fabaceae
family Fagaceae (current term)
family Falconidae
family Fasciolidae
family Felidae
family Filariidae
family Fissurellidae
family Fistulariidae
family Fistulinaceae
family Flacourtiaceae
family Forficulidae
family Formicariidae
family Formicidae
family Fouquieriaceae
family Fregatidae
family Fringillidae

Literary usage of Family Fagaceae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"BEECH FAMILY. Fagaceae. Trees or shrubs with alternate-growing leaves, and staminate and pistillate flowers which occur upon the same tree, the staminate in ..."

2. Pennsylvania Trees by Joseph Simon Illick, Pennsylvania Dept. of Forestry (1914)
"THE BEECH FAMILY—FAGACEAE. The Beech family contains some of the most important timber species and has its representatives distributed in nearly all regions ..."

3. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1916)
"NOTES ON THE ANCESTRY OF THE BEECH EDWARD W. BERRY The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. The members of the beech family (Fagaceae) rival those of ..."

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