hornbeam

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Etymology

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

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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 (Ostrya virginiana).
  3. The wood of these trees.

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