hornbeam

English

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Etymology

c. 1570, from Old English horn + beam (“tree”)

Pronunciation

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Noun

hornbeam (plural hornbeams)

1. A tree of the genus Carpinus, having a smooth gray bark and a ridged trunk, the wood being white and very hard, common along the banks of streams in the United States.
2. A hop hornbeam.
3. The wood of these trees.

Synonyms

• ironwood, musclewood

Hyponyms

• blue beech

Translations

tree of Carpinus

• Abkhaz: хьаца (ab) (x'arca)
• Armenian: բոխի (hy) (boxi)
• Catalan: carpí (ca) m
• Czech: habr (cs) m
• Dutch: haagbeuk m
• Esperanto: karpeno (eo)
• French: charme (fr) m
• Georgian: რცხილა (ka) (rc'xila)
• German: Hainbuche (de) f, Weißbuche (de) f
• Ido: karpino (io)
• Italian: carpino (it)
• Japanese: 四手, 垂 (shide)

• Jèrriais: charmille f
• Latin: carpinus (la)
• Latvian: skābardis (lv)
• Lithuanian: skroblas (lt)
• Macedonian: габер (mk) (gáber) m
• Polish: grab (pl) m
• Portuguese: carpino (pt) m
• Romanian: carpen (ro)
• Russian: граб (ru) (grab) m
• Slovak: hrab m
• Slovene: beli gaber (sl) m, navadni gaber (sl) m
• Spanish: carpe (es) m

See also

• Hornbeam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Carpinus on Wikispecies. Wikispecies: Carpinus
• Carpinus on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons: Carpinus

References

• hornbeam in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913