GENUS OSTRYA
Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Ostrya mean?
• GENUS OSTRYA (noun)
The noun GENUS OSTRYA has 1 sense:
1. deciduous monoecious trees of Europe and Asia and America; sometimes placed in subfamily or family Carpinaceae
Familiarity information: GENUS OSTRYA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GENUS OSTRYA (noun)
Meaning:
Deciduous monoecious trees of Europe and Asia and America; sometimes placed in subfamily or family Carpinaceae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Ostrya; Ostrya
Hypernyms ("genus Ostrya" is a kind of...):
hamamelid dicot genus (genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins)
Meronyms (members of "genus Ostrya"):
hop hornbeam (any of several trees resembling hornbeams with fruiting clusters resembling hops)
Old World hop hornbeam; Ostrya carpinifolia (medium-sized hop hornbeam of southern Europe and Asia Minor)
Eastern hop hornbeam; ironwood; ironwood tree; Ostrya virginiana (medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America)
Holonyms ("genus Ostrya" is a member of...):
Betulaceae; birch family; family Betulaceae (monoecious trees and shrubs (including the genera Betula and Alnus and Carpinus and Corylus and Ostrya and Ostryopsis))