carpinus (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *Carpinus*:
NOUN	plant	Carpinus, genus Carpinus	mostly deciduous monoecious trees or shrubs

English > *Carpinus*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	Mostly deciduous monoecious trees or shrubs: hornbeams; sometimes placed in subfamily Carpinaceae.
Synonym	genus Carpinus
Member of	Betulaceae, family Betulaceae, birch family	monoecious trees and shrubs (including the genera ... / genera Betula and Alnus and Carpinus and Corylus and Ostrya and Ostryopsis)
Members	American hornbeam, Carpinus caroliniana	Tree or large shrub with grey bark and blue-green leaves that turn red-orange in autumn
	European hornbeam, Carpinus betulus	medium-sized Old World tree with smooth grey bark and leaves like beech that turn yellow-orange in autumn
	hornbeam	Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Carpinus
Broader	hamamelid dicot genus	genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins
Spanish	carpinus, genus carpinus
Catalan	Carpí, carpinus, Carpinus, genus carpinus

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