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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.
Generic synonyms: Hamamelid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Betulaceae, Birch Family, Family Betulaceae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ostryopsis
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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