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    GENUS CARPINUS

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

    Carpinus; genus Carpinus

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus 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 "genus 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 ("genus 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))

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