Look up: hornbeam

1. Hornbeam
   (Carpinus) Carpinus is the botanical name for a group of hardy, deciduous (leaf-losing) trees or large shrubs native to Europe, the Himalayas, eastern Asia, and North and Central America. The common names of these trees include Hornbeam, Blue Beech, Water Beech, and Ironwood. These trees range in he...
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2. hornbeam
   [n] - any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Carpinus
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3. Hornbeam
   The wood the pins and the frame are made from. This is a hardwood, related to beech.
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4. Hornbeam
   Horn'beam` noun [ See Beam .] (Botany) A tree of the genus Carpinus ( C. Americana ), having a smooth gray bark and a ridged trunk, the wood being white and very hard. It is common along the banks of streams in the United State...
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5. hornbeam
   <botany> A tree of the genus Carpinus (C. Americana), having a smooth gray bark and a ridged trunk, the wood being white and very hard. It is common along the banks of streams in the United States, and is also called ironwood. The English hornbeam is C. Betulus. The American is ... Synonym: bl...
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6. Hornbeam
   • (n.) A tree of the genus Carpinus (C. Americana), having a smooth gray bark and a ridged trunk, the wood being white and very hard. It is common along the banks of streams in the United States, and is also called ironwood. The English hornbeam is C. Betulus. The American is called also blue b...
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7. hornbeam
   any of about 25 species of hardy, slow-growing ornamental and timber trees constituting the genus Carpinus of the birch family (Betulaceae), ...
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8. hornbeam
   hornbeam or ironwood,name in North America for two groups of trees of the family Betulaceae (birch family), native to the eastern half of the continent. Carpinus caroliniana, also called blue beech and water beech, has smooth gray bark. The hop hornbeam, Ostrya virginiana, has thin, narrowly ridged,...
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9. Hornbeam
   Hornbeam (Carpinus Betulus) is a small bushy tree of the natural order Cupuliferae common in Britain, and often used in hedges, as it stands cutting and in age becomes very stiff. The wood is white, tough, and hard, and is used in turnery, and formerly for cogs of wheels, etc. The inner bark yields ...
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10. hornbeam
    Any of a group of trees belonging to the birch family. They have oval leaves with toothed edges and hanging clusters of flowers, each with a nutlike seed attached to the base. The trunk is usually twisted, with smooth grey bark. (Genus Carpinus, family Betulaceae.)
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11. Hornbeam
    `Hornbeams` are relatively small hardwood trees in the genus `Carpinus` (Cár-pi-nus). Though some botanists grouped them with the hazels (Corylus) and hop-hornbeams (Ostrya) in a segregate family, Corylaceae, modern botanists place the hornbeams in the birch sub...
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