HOPS
Dictionary entry overview: What does hops mean?
• HOPS (noun)
The noun HOPS has 1 sense:
1. twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes; the dried flowers of this plant are used in brewing to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer
Familiarity information: HOPS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• HOPS (noun)
Meaning:
Twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes; the dried flowers of this plant are used in brewing to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
hops; hop
Hypernyms ("hops" is a kind of...):
vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hops"):
bine; common hop; common hops; European hop; Humulus lupulus (European twining plant whose flowers are used chiefly to flavor malt liquors; cultivated in America)
American hop; Humulus americanus (native American plant sometimes confused with the European hop)
Humulus japonicus; Japanese hop (ornamental vine native to eastern Asia; cultivated for its variegated foliage)
Holonyms ("hops" is a member of...):
genus Humulus; Humulus (hops: hardy perennial vines of Europe, North America and central and eastern Asia producing a latex sap; in some classifications included in the family Urticaceae)
