» genus aesculus
Noun (1 meaning)
1. deciduous trees or some shrubs of North America; southeastern Europe; eastern Asia.
genus aesculus is a type of:
- dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus (noun) - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
genus aesculus is a member of:
- Hippocastanaceae, family Hippocastanaceae, horse-chestnut family (noun) - trees having showy flowers and inedible nutlike seeds in a leathery capsule
members of genus aesculus:
- horse chestnut, buckeye, Aesculus hippocastanum (noun) - tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds