hamamelid dicot family

Definitions of hamamelid dicot family

1. noun

   family of mostly woody dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins
   types:

   Fagaceae, beech family, family Fagaceae

   chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs: beeches; chestnuts; oaks; genera Castanea, Castanopsis, Chrysolepis, Fagus, Lithocarpus, Nothofagus, Quercus

   Betulaceae, birch family, family Betulaceae

   monoecious trees and shrubs (including the genera Betula and Alnus and Carpinus and Corylus and Ostrya and Ostryopsis)

   Carpinaceae, family Carpinaceae, subfamily Carpinaceae

   used in some classification systems for the genera Carpinus, Ostryopsis, and Ostryopsis

   Corylaceae, family Corylaceae, subfamily Corylaceae

   used in some classification systems for the genus Corylus

   Hamamelidaceae, family Hamamelidaceae, witch-hazel family

   comprises genera Hamamelis, Corylopsis, Fothergilla, Liquidambar, Parrotia, and other small genera

   Salicaceae, family Salicaceae, willow family

   two genera of trees or shrubs having hairy catkins: Salix; Populus

   type of:

   dicot family, magnoliopsid family

   family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination