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Noun: horse-chestnut family
  1. Trees having showy flowers and inedible nutlike seeds in a leathery capsule
    "The horse-chestnut family includes both ornamental and wild species";
    - Hippocastanaceae, family Hippocastanaceae

Derived forms: horse-chestnut families

Type of: dicot family, magnoliopsid family

Part of: order Sapindales, Sapindales