genus aesculus

English Thesaurus

1. deciduous trees or some shrubs of North America; southeastern Europe; eastern Asia (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	:	aesculus hippocastanum, buckeye, horse chestnut,
definition	:	tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	family hippocastanaceae, hippocastanaceae, horse-chestnut family,
definition	:	trees having showy flowers and inedible nutlike seeds in a leathery capsule (noun.plant)