[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)
(n) monoecious trees and shrubs (including the genera Betula and Alnus and Carpinus and Corylus and Ostrya and Ostryopsis), Syn. birch family, family Betulaceae