EUROPEAN HORNBEAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does European hornbeam mean? 

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

1. medium-sized Old World tree with smooth grey bark and leaves like beech that turn yellow-orange in autumn

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EUROPEAN HORNBEAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Medium-sized Old World tree with smooth grey bark and leaves like beech that turn yellow-orange in autumn

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Carpinus betulus; European hornbeam

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

hornbeam (any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Carpinus)

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

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