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hornbeam

/hawrn-beem/US // ˈhɔrnˌbim //UK // (ˈhɔːnˌbiːm) //

角马,犀牛角,犀牛座,喇叭花

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any North American shrub or tree belonging to the genus Carpinus, of the birch family, yielding a hard, heavy wood, as C. caroliniana.

Examples

  • The maple trees in Westminster Abbey represent modesty and the hornbeam trees represent resilience.

  • One old hornbeam-tree is pointed out as the only tree that escaped destruction.

  • By these hornbeam trees a little streamlet flows out from the copse and under the road by a culvert.

  • Ascham recommended for men of average strength arrows made of birch, hornbeam, oak, and ash.

  • Those who played had to wear leaves of the hornbeam-tree, and these were to be kept fresh, under penalty of a fine.

  • The maple, the ash, the hornbeam, the elm and the birch have yet another method of escape from the home acre.