American hornbeam
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of American hornbeam
An Americanism dating back to 1775–85
Example Sentences
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Take the Hornbeam Trail, interspersed with the American hornbeam, a distinctive tree also called the musclewood — so named because the bark resembles rippling muscles.
From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 2022
The inventory also includes such underused but lovely native trees as the scarlet and overcup oaks, the Kentucky coffee tree and the American hornbeam and hophornbeam.
From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2017
The American hornbeam has bluish gray bark, very fine in texture, from which the name "blue beech," is common in some localities.
From Trees Worth Knowing by Rogers, Julia Ellen
THE blue beech, or American hornbeam, belongs to the birch family rather than to the beeches.
From Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them by Fuller George D.
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