Definition of Ostrya

1. Noun. Deciduous monoecious trees of Europe and Asia and America; sometimes placed in subfamily or family Carpinaceae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Ostrya

Ostians
Ostic
Ostman
Ostmen
Ostraciidae
Ostrava
Ostrea gigas
Ostreidae
Ostrobothnia
Ostrobothnian
Ostrobothnians
Ostrogoth
Ostrogothic
Ostrogoths
Ostrya (current term)
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

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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