Definition of Genus Ostrya

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


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Ostrya

genus Orontium
genus Ortalis
genus Orthilia
genus Orthopristis
genus Orthotomus
genus Orycteropus
genus Oryctolagus
genus Oryx
genus Oryza
genus Oryzomys
genus Oryzopsis
genus Osmanthus
genus Osmerus
genus Osmunda
genus Ostrea
genus Ostrya (current term)
genus Ostryopsis
genus Otaria
genus Othonna
genus Otis
genus Otus
genus Ouranopithecus
genus Ovalipes
genus Ovibos
genus Ovis
genus Oxalis
genus Oxandra
genus Oxybelis
genus Oxydendrum
genus Oxylebius

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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