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Definition of Genus Ostrya
1. Noun. Deciduous monoecious trees of Europe and Asia and America; sometimes placed in subfamily or family Carpinaceae.
Generic synonyms: Hamamelid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Betulaceae, Birch Family, Family Betulaceae
Member holonyms: Hop Hornbeam, Old World Hop Hornbeam, Ostrya Carpinifolia, Eastern Hop Hornbeam, Ironwood, Ironwood Tree, Ostrya Virginiana
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Ostrya
Literary usage of Genus Ostrya
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"I. Genus OSTRYA Scop. SMALL trees with very hard wood and scaly bark. Leaves simple,
alternate, ovate, deciduous. Flowers small, monoecious, both in catkins ..."
2. Native Trees of Kentucky: A Handbook by Sarah Webb Maury (1910)
"B. HOP HORNBEAM—genus Ostrya. Ironwood—Ostrya virginiana. The Ironwood or Hop
Hornbeam occurs among the low trees, forming the understory of dry fertile ..."
3. Ornamental Gardening for Americans: A Treatise on Beautifying Homes, Rural by Elias A. Long (1899)
"The HOP-HORNBEAM OR IRON-WOOD, belongs to a closely related genus (Ostrya Virginica).
It has a resemblance to the foregoing, but is more upright and slender ..."
4. Forestry in Minnesota by Samuel Bowdlear Green, Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota (1902)
"Genus OSTRYA. Flowers monoecious, apetalous; the staminate naked in long pendulous
catkins; the pistillate in erect loose catkins; ovary two-celled, ..."
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