A "hop plant" is a type of vine that produces flowers called hops, which are used to flavor and preserve beer.
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To get around those problems, scientists figured out how to brew «hoppy» beer without the use of hop plants. (sciencemag.org)
Attention, Elon Musk: You might want to include a few hop plants in the cargo hold when you colonize Mars. (fortune.com)
When the team brewed beer using the genetically engineered yeast, linalool and geraniol were in the final product — but they came from the yeast, not from hop plants. (sciencemag.org)