OSTRYOPSIS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Deciduous monoecious shrubs of China and Mongolia resembling trees of the genus Ostrya; sometimes placed in subfamily or family Carpinaceae

Synonyms:

genus Ostryopsis; Ostryopsis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Ostryopsis" 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)

Holonyms ("Ostryopsis" 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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