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OSTRYA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Deciduous monoecious trees of Europe and Asia and America; sometimes placed in subfamily or family Carpinaceae

Synonyms:

genus Ostrya; Ostrya

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("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 "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 ("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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