horse-chestnut family

Definitions of horse-chestnut family
  1. noun
    trees having showy flowers and inedible nutlike seeds in a leathery capsule
    synonyms: Hippocastanaceae, family Hippocastanaceae
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    type of:
    dicot family, magnoliopsid family
    family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
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