CARPINUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Carpinus mean? 

• CARPINUS (noun)
  The noun CARPINUS has 1 sense:

1. mostly deciduous monoecious trees or shrubs: hornbeams; sometimes placed in subfamily Carpinaceae

  Familiarity information: CARPINUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARPINUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mostly deciduous monoecious trees or shrubs: hornbeams; sometimes placed in subfamily Carpinaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Carpinus; genus Carpinus

Hypernyms ("Carpinus" 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 "Carpinus"):

hornbeam (any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Carpinus)

Carpinus betulus; European hornbeam (medium-sized Old World tree with smooth grey bark and leaves like beech that turn yellow-orange in autumn)

American hornbeam; Carpinus caroliniana (tree or large shrub with grey bark and blue-green leaves that turn red-orange in autumn)

Holonyms ("Carpinus" 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))