carpinus

1. 1.

   mostly deciduous monoecious trees or shrubs: hornbeams; sometimes placed in subfamily Carpinaceae

   Synonymsgenus Carpinus

   Broaderhamamelid dicot genus

   Part ofBetulaceae

Other forms of carpinus

plural

carpinuses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about carpinus

What does carpinus mean?

carpinus means "mostly deciduous monoecious trees or shrubs: hornbeams; sometimes placed in subfamily Carpinaceae".

How many syllables are in carpinus?

carpinus has 3 syllables: car-pi-nus. The stress falls on "car".

What is another word for carpinus?

Close synonyms include genus Carpinus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is carpinus a common word?

carpinus is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.