hops
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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 surfacesubtypes:- 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 Urticaceaesame as: hop
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