HOPS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hops mean? 

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

1. twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes; the dried flowers of this plant are used in brewing to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOPS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes; the dried flowers of this plant are used in brewing to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

hop; hops

Hypernyms ("hops" is a kind of...):

vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hops"):

bine; common hop; common hops; European hop; Humulus lupulus (European twining plant whose flowers are used chiefly to flavor malt liquors; cultivated in America)

American hop; Humulus americanus (native American plant sometimes confused with the European hop)

Humulus japonicus; Japanese hop (ornamental vine native to eastern Asia; cultivated for its variegated foliage)

Holonyms ("hops" is a member of...):

genus Humulus; Humulus (hops: hardy perennial vines of Europe, North America and central and eastern Asia producing a latex sap; in some classifications included in the family Urticaceae)

 Context examples 

Hops oil has antimicrobial and antiseptic properties and is also reported to have diuretic and sedative effect.

(Hops Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

It was there, among the hops, when I lay down to sleep; it was with me on my waking in the morning; it went before me all day.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

An alcoholic beverage usually made from malted cereal grain (as barley), flavored with hops, and brewed by slow fermentation.

(Beer, NCI Thesaurus)

She, who had never cooked in her life, learned to make bread without the mediation of hops, yeast, or baking-powder, and to bake bread, top and bottom, in a frying-pan before an open fire.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I thought it all extremely beautiful, and made up my mind to sleep among the hops that night: imagining some cheerful companionship in the long perspectives of poles, with the graceful leaves twining round them.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I suppose you don't take much interest in hops; but I am a pretty large grower myself; and if you ever like to come over to our neighbourhood—neighbourhood of Ashford—and take a run about our place,—we shall be glad for you to stop as long as you like.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)