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HOP HORNBEAM

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Meaning:

Any of several trees resembling hornbeams with fruiting clusters resembling hops

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("hop hornbeam" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

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

Old World hop hornbeam; Ostrya carpinifolia (medium-sized hop hornbeam of southern Europe and Asia Minor)

Eastern hop hornbeam; ironwood; ironwood tree; Ostrya virginiana (medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America)

Holonyms ("hop hornbeam" is a member of...):

genus Ostrya; Ostrya (deciduous monoecious trees of Europe and Asia and America; sometimes placed in subfamily or family Carpinaceae)

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