(n) monoecious trees and shrubs (including the genera Betula and Alnus and Carpinus and Corylus and Ostrya and Ostryopsis), Syn. birch family, family Betulaceae
[しで(四手;垂;紙垂;椣);かみしで(紙垂;紙四手), shide ( shi te ; sui ; kami sui ; shide ); kamishide ( kami sui ; kami shi te )] (n) (1) zigzag-shaped paper streamer often used to adorn Shinto-related objects; (2) (四手, 垂 only) hornbeam (deciduous tree in the birch family)