We found 2 definitions of carpinus from 2 different sources.
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carpinus - mostly deciduous monoecious trees or shrubs: hornbeams; sometimes placed in subfamily Carpinaceae | ||
genus Carpinus | ||
hamamelid dicot genus genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins | ||
betulaceae, birch family, family betulaceae monoecious trees and shrubs (including the genera Betula and Alnus and Carpinus and Corylus and Ostrya and Ostryopsis) | ||
hornbeam any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Carpinus | ||
carpinus betulus, european hornbeam medium-sized Old World tree with smooth grey bark and leaves like beech that turn yellow-orange in autumn |