horse-chestnut family

1. 1.

   trees having showy flowers and inedible nutlike seeds in a leathery capsule

   SynonymsHippocastanaceaefamily Hippocastanaceae

   Broaderdicot family

   Part ofSapindales

Questions about horse-chestnut family

What does horse-chestnut family mean?

horse-chestnut family means "trees having showy flowers and inedible nutlike seeds in a leathery capsule".

What is another word for horse-chestnut family?

Close synonyms include Hippocastanaceae, family Hippocastanaceae. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is horse-chestnut family a common word?

horse-chestnut family is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.