CELTIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Celtis mean? 

• CELTIS (noun)
  The noun CELTIS has 1 sense:

1. large genus of trees and shrubs with berrylike fruit

  Familiarity information: CELTIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CELTIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large genus of trees and shrubs with berrylike fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Celtis; genus Celtis

Hypernyms ("Celtis" is a kind of...):

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Celtis"):

hackberry; nettle tree (any of various trees of the genus Celtis having inconspicuous flowers and small berrylike fruits)

Celtis australis; European hackberry; Mediterranean hackberry (bright green deciduous shade tree of southern Europe)

American hackberry; Celtis occidentalis (large deciduous shade tree of southern United States with small deep purple berries)

Celtis laevigata; sugarberry (deciduous shade tree with small black berries; southern United States; yields soft yellowish wood)

Holonyms ("Celtis" is a member of...):

elm family; family Ulmaceae; Ulmaceae (a dicot family of the order Urticales including: genera Ulmus, Celtis, Planera, Trema)