NOUN | plant | genus Ostrya, Ostrya | deciduous monoecious trees of Europe and Asia and America |
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Meaning | deciduous monoecious trees of Europe and Asia and America; sometimes placed in subfamily or family Carpinaceae. | |
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Synonym | Ostrya | |
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 | Eastern hop hornbeam, ironwood, ironwood tree, Ostrya virginiana | medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America |
Old World hop hornbeam, Ostrya carpinifolia | medium-sized hop hornbeam of southern Europe and Asia Minor | |
hop hornbeam | Any of several trees resembling hornbeams with fruiting clusters resembling hops | |
Broader | hamamelid dicot genus | genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins |
Spanish | genus ostrya, ostrya | |
Catalan | genus ostrya, ostrya |
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