hornbeam
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hornbeam (plural hornbeams)
- A tree of the genus Carpinus (Carpinus caroliniana), 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 Carpinus betulus. The American is called also blue beech and water beech.
- The wood of this tree.
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- hornbeam in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

