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1) Tree 2) Tree housing Arthur
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==Origin of names== The common English name of `hornbeam` derives from the hardness of the woods (likened to horn) and the Old English `beam`, a tree (cognate with German `Baum`). The American hornbeam is also occasionally known as blue-beech, ironwood, or musclewood; the first from the resemblance of the bark to that of the American Beech F...
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tree common only in Epping Forest and Enfield Chase where coppiced and lopped by commoners for fuel; very hard wood, used for chessmen, draughts, cogs, mallets
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• (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 beech and water beech.Hornbeam: words in the defini...
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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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(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 height from 15 to 80 feet. C. caroliniana grows from...
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<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: blue beech and water beech. Hop hornbeam. ... <bo...
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tree common only in Epping Forest and Enfield Chase where coppiced and lopped by commoners for fuel; very hard wood, used for chessmen, draughts, cogs, mallets
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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 States, and is also called
ironwood . The Engli...
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The wood the pins and the frame are made from. This is a hardwood, related to beech.
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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 a yellow dye. The American hornbeam (Carpinus amer...
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[
n] - any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Carpinus
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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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any North American shrub or tree belonging to the genus Carpinus, of the birch family, yielding a hard, heavy wood, as C. caroliniana
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