OSTRYOPSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ostryopsis mean? 

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

1. deciduous monoecious shrubs of China and Mongolia resembling trees of the genus Ostrya; sometimes placed in subfamily or family Carpinaceae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OSTRYOPSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deciduous monoecious shrubs of China and Mongolia resembling trees of the genus Ostrya; sometimes placed in subfamily or family Carpinaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Ostryopsis; Ostryopsis

Hypernyms ("Ostryopsis" 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)

Holonyms ("Ostryopsis" 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))