Hornbeam Definition

hôrnbēm
noun
Any of a genus (Carpinus) of small, hardy trees of the birch family, with smooth, gray bark and drooping catkins with flat, papery bracts around a greenish nut.
Webster's New World
The very hard, white wood of this tree, which takes a hornlike polish and is used for tool handles, etc.
Webster's New World
The wood of one of these trees.
American Heritage
A hop hornbeam.
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Other Word Forms of Hornbeam

Noun

Singular:
hornbeam
Plural:
hornbeams

Origin of Hornbeam

  • So called because its finely grained wood resembles horn when polished

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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

    From Wiktionary

Hornbeam Sentence Examples

  • In north and central Franee the chief trees are the oak, the beech, rare south of the Loire, and the hornbeam; less important varieties are the birch, poplar, ash, elm and walnut.

  • Where artificial copsewood is the object, hazel, hornbeam and other bushes may be planted between the oaks; but, when large timber is required, the trees are best without undergrowth.

  • The woods consist chiefly of pine and hazel upon theApennines, and upon the Calabrian, Sicilian and Sardinian mountains of oak, ilex, hornbeam and similar trees.

  • The hornbeam thrives well on stiff, clayey, moist soils, into which its roots penetrate deeply; on chalk or gravel it does not flourish.

  • The wood of the hornbeam is white and close-grained, and polishes ill, is of considerable tenacity and little flexibility, and is extremely tough and hard to work - whence, according to Gerard, the name of the tree.

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