HORNBEAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hornbeam mean? 

• HORNBEAM (noun)
  The noun HORNBEAM has 1 sense:

1. any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Carpinus

  Familiarity information: HORNBEAM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HORNBEAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Carpinus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("hornbeam" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hornbeam"):

Carpinus betulus; European hornbeam (medium-sized Old World tree with smooth grey bark and leaves like beech that turn yellow-orange in autumn)

American hornbeam; Carpinus caroliniana (tree or large shrub with grey bark and blue-green leaves that turn red-orange in autumn)

Holonyms ("hornbeam" is a member of...):

Carpinus; genus Carpinus (mostly deciduous monoecious trees or shrubs: hornbeams; sometimes placed in subfamily Carpinaceae)