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HOPS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

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

Synonyms:

hop; hops

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Present simple (third person singular) of the verb hop

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