hops

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 (synset 112418369)
   is a type of: vine - a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface
   subtypes:

   • 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
   belongs to: 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
   same as: hop

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