Definition of Ostryopsis

1. Noun. Deciduous monoecious shrubs of China and Mongolia resembling trees of the genus Ostrya; sometimes placed in subfamily or family Carpinaceae.

Exact synonyms: Genus Ostryopsis
Generic synonyms: Hamamelid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Betulaceae, Birch Family, Family Betulaceae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ostryopsis

Ostmen
Ostraciidae
Ostrava
Ostrea gigas
Ostreidae
Ostrobothnia
Ostrobothnian
Ostrobothnians
Ostrogoth
Ostrogothic
Ostrogoths
Ostrya
Ostrya carpinifolia
Ostrya virginiana
Ostryopsis
Ostwald
Ostwald's solubility coefficient
Ostwald's theory of indicators
Ostyak
Ostyak-Samoyed
Oswald
Oswald Spengler
Oswald Veblen
Oswaldo
Oswego teas
Ot3
Ota's nevus
Otago

Literary usage of Ostryopsis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"In the first are the small genera ostryopsis (1 species), Ostrya (2 species), Carpinus (18 species) and Corylus (8 species). In passing we notice that our ..."

2. A naturalist in western China: with vasculum, camera, and gun; being some by Ernest Henry Wilson, Charles Sprague Sargent (1913)
"The monotypic ostryopsis is confined to Mongolia and China. Of Alnus there are five species in eastern North America, four of these being shrubs and one a ..."

3. Systematic Anatomy of the Dicotyledons: A Handbook for Laboratories of Pure by Hans Solereder (1908)
"In the structure of the characteristic region the genera Ostrya, ostryopsis, and Betula agree in as much as the vascular system in transverse section is ..."

4. Mongolia, the Tangut Country, and the Solitudes of Northern Tibet: Being a by Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovich Przhevalʹskiĭ (1876)
"... extending along the southeastern border of the Shara-hada mountains, bushes are plentiful; the prevailing kinds being the hazel (ostryopsis Davidiana), ..."

5. Mongolia, the Tangut Country, and the Solitudes of Northern Tibet: Being a by Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovich Przhevalʹskiĭ (1876)
"Amongst bushes in the Ala-shan forests we observed spiraea, white and yellow kurile tea (Poten- tilla glabra, P. tenuifolia), and hazel (ostryopsis ..."

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