Crossword clues for hornbeam
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hornbeam \Horn"beam`\, n. [See Beam.] (Bot.) A tree of the genus Carpinus ( Carpinus 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 Carpinus Betulus. The American is called also blue beech and water beech.
Hop hornbeam. (Bot.) See under Hop.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 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.
WordNet
n. any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Carpinus
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "hornbeam".
In the centre was a raised pool, empty of water but filled with weeds, and in one corner of the courtyard a young hornbeam had pushed its way through the tiles, cracking them around its bole.
Not even a wind to stir the dead leaves of the hornbeam on the green and yellow tiles.
A group of Riflemen were tying strips of white cloth to the bare hornbeam that had broken through the tiles.
He went inside, past the hornbeam which was decorated anew with a delicate tracery of snow, and it seemed impossible that only yesterday morning he had watched the German Riflemen decorate the bare branches.
The hornbeam was struck on the trunk, it seemed to fly in the air, roots tearing up tiles and snow, and the buttons and ribbons that had decorated it were thrown to the ground with the falling tree.
The provosts brought him, and the firing squad watched as he was tied to the hornbeam, but Sharpe did not watch.
One afternoon one of the pair flew up into a hornbeam which stood beside the garden not twenty yards at farthest.
By these hornbeam trees a streamlet flows out of the copse, crossed at the hedge by a pole, to prevent cattle straying in.
Barrelstave and Lapith Hornbeam and a couple of the Dunk clan, fell on the attackers and dragged them back.
Alastair entered the park by a gap in the wall, crossed the snow-filled river, and came by way of a hornbeam avenue to the back parts of the house.
The heavy brown barks of oak, beech, walnut, apple, and maple were intermixed with supple, straight, thin-barked willow, birch, hornbeam, aspen, and the high brush of alder and hazelnut.
Scrub oak and hornbeam quickly led to the cool, welcome shade of parkland oak woods.
As they rode double through a small grove of trees, a mixture of spruce, birch, hornbeam, and larch, they came to a flowering glade, a small luxuriant meadow that was a verdant piece of the steppes, enclosed by trees.
At last the horse struggled up the shore and he was at once directed to the right, leaving a trail of water drops as he followed the others along a narrow trail cut through the forest, mostly oak and hornbeam here along the river, fairly open, with a dense layer of crocus, hellebore, and wild strawberry carpeting the ground.
MG34 machine-gun began firing in support, and an 88mm shell from one of the tanks smashed a giant hornbeam into a pillar of splinters and fire.