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hornbeam

[ UK /hˈɔːnbiːm/ ]
NOUN
  1. any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Carpinus

How To Use hornbeam In A Sentence

  • The first frost had come and the colour was already in the hornbeam as I gathered up a clump of bulbs to bring with me to my new home in Somerset and, weather permitting, I expect to have them in flower until the end of the month. Gardens: The late, late, show… by the nerines
  • The repetition of boxwood, yew and hornbeam—stalwarts of the French garden—creates an overall harmony, a symphony in green. Stately French Gardens
  • The roots of the nearest hornbeam were obviously damaging the brickwork, much of which was crumbling into fine red powder.
  • As my patient husband remarked recently, "I understand now: box, yew, hornbeam and more box, yew and hornbeam. That Garden Je Ne Sais Quoi
  • The schoolmistress in those days wore what was called a busk -- a flat piece of lancewood, hornbeam, or some other like tough and elastic wood, thrust into a sort of pocket or sheath in her dress, which came up almost to the chin and came down below the waist. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
  • There is another variety which bears on the same tree differently shaped leaves, like the heterophyllous hornbeam; this tree is also remarkable from having pendulous branches, and bearing elongated, large, thin-shelled nuts. [ The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.
  • Charlotte Moss This window in a hornbeam hedge at d'Orsan provides a view of the enfilade of outdoor rooms. Stately French Gardens
  • It consists of the lowland to submontane acidophilous oak and mixed oak forests, mixed oak-hornbeam forests, and lowland to submontane hemiboreal and nemoral pine forests on the North European glaciated plain. Central European mixed forests
  • Shorter trees are eastern redbud, flowering dogwood, American hornbeam, and eastern hop hornbeam.
  • The forest has little undergrowth and is mainly composed of beech and pine, interspersed with a few oaks and hornbeams.
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