carpinus
Noun
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Mostly deciduous monoecious trees or shrubs: hornbeams;
Sometimes placed in subfamily Carpinaceae (synset 112307098)is a type of: hamamelid dicot genus - genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkinsmember holonym:- 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
belongs to: betulaceae, birch family, family betulaceae - monoecious trees and shrubs (including the genera Betula and Alnus and Carpinus and Corylus and Ostrya and Ostryopsis)same as: genus carpinus
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