of, relating to, or belonging to the Fagaceae, a family of trees, including beech, oak, and chestnut, whose fruit is partly or wholly enclosed in a husk (cupule)
Word origin
C19: from New Latin Fāgāceae, from Latin fāgus beech
Examples of 'fagaceous' in a sentence
fagaceous
As expected, the composition of fungal symbionts differed between fagaceous (ectomycorrhizal) and non-fagaceous (possiblyarbuscular mycorrhizal) plants.
Hirokazu Toju, Hirotoshi Sato, Akifumi S Tanabe 2014, 'Diversity and spatial structure of belowground plant-fungal symbiosis in a mixed subtropicalforest of ectomycorrhizal and arbuscular mycorrhizal plants.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3904951?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)