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Definition of 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 Ostrya
Literary usage of Ostrya
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Physiological materia medica, containing all that is known of the by William H. Burt (1896)
"ostrya VIRGINICA. Iron Wood. Habitat: America, etc. Decoction from heart of the
tree sawed fine, evaporated to a powder, and then triturated; ..."
2. The Principal Species of Wood: Their Characteristic Properties by Charles Henry Snow (1908)
"(Carpinus, ostrya, etc.) Beech is well known on the eastern continent. ...
to the Hornbeam (ostrya ..."
3. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District by Asa Gray (1868)
"Fertile flowers several, spiked in a sort of loose terminal catkin, with small
deciduous bracts, each subtending a pair of flowers, as in ostrya; ..."
4. London Trees: Being an Account of the Trees that Succeed in London, with a by Angus Duncan Webster (1920)
"The best specimens we have seen are growing in rather light soil on a gravelly
bottom. It is usually propagated from root cuttings. Hop Hornbeam (ostrya ..."
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