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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)

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genus Ostrya ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

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))

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