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English Thesaurus

1. type genus of the Aceraceae; trees or shrubs having winged fruit (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus,
definition	:	genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	maple,
definition	:	any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	aceraceae, family aceraceae, maple family,
definition	:	a family of trees and shrubs of order Sapindales including the maples (noun.plant)