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Hornbeam vs Hophornbeam - What's the difference?

hornbeam | hophornbeam |

As nouns the difference between hornbeam and hophornbeam

is that hornbeam is 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 while hophornbeam is any species of the genus Ostrya, with exceptionally dense wood.

hornbeam

English

(wikipedia hornbeam)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • A hop hornbeam.
  • The wood of these trees.

    • Synonyms

    * ironwood, musclewood

    Hyponyms

    * blue beech

    See also

    * ("hornbeam" on Wikipedia) * (Carpinus) * (Carpinus)

    References

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    hophornbeam

    English

    (Ostrya) (Ostrya)

    Alternative forms

    * hop-hornbeam (UK)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any species of the genus Ostrya , with exceptionally dense wood.

    • Derived terms

    * (European hop-hornbeam), (common hop-hornbeam) () * (Chisos hophornbeam), (Big Bend hophornbeam) () * (Japanese hop-hornbeam) () * (Knowlton hophornbeam), (western hophornbeam), (wolf hophornbeam) () * (Central Chinese hop-hornbeam) () * (Zhejiang hop-hornbeam) () * (eastern hophornbeam), (American hophornbeam), (Central American hophornbeam), ironwood Ostrya virginiana * (Yunnan hop-hornbeam) () English words with consonant pseudo-digraphs