| NOUN | plant | genus Carpinus, Carpinus | mostly deciduous monoecious trees or shrubs |
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| Meaning | Mostly deciduous monoecious trees or shrubs: hornbeams; sometimes placed in subfamily Carpinaceae. | |
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| Synonym | 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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