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BNC: 49669 COCA: 42340
BNC: 49669 COCA: 42340

hornbeam

noun

horn·​beam ˈhȯrn-ˌbēm How to pronounce hornbeam (audio)
: any of a genus (Carpinus) of trees of the birch family having smooth gray bark and hard white wood

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Now there are stretches where the trees close in above you, such as the segment above Fremont Street where strawberry trees with their smooth orangey trunks reach over the walkway and meet the European hornbeam across the way. John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Sep. 2022 Take the Hornbeam Trail, interspersed with the American hornbeam, a distinctive tree also called the musclewood — so named because the bark resembles rippling muscles. Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2022 Donated by the National Wild Turkey Federation, the tree species includes silky dogwood, American hop, hornbeam and gray dogwood. cleveland, 14 Apr. 2022 Its yew trees, themselves a replacement for the original hornbeam, are threadbare in places where eager visitors have brushed up against them. Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021 Some species don a medley all at once, or are more potluck with their hues, like sweet gum and American hornbeam. Miri Talabac, baltimoresun.com, 30 Sep. 2021 Royal florist Philippa Craddock incorporated local, in-season blooms with lots of greenery including branches of beech, birch and hornbeam as well as white garden roses, foxgloves, and peonies to create the lush, romantic arrangements. Olivia Hosken, Town & Country, 4 Sep. 2021 But there was rapid, smooth healing in such trees as hornbeam and Southern magnolia. Washington Post, 7 July 2021 Alden Hopkins replaced boxwood in the Ellipse with the iconic hornbeam hedge. Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2021 See More

Word History

Etymology

Middle English hernbem, from hern- (of uncertain meaning and origin) + bem "tree" — more at beam entry 1

Note: The tree name hornbeam is generally taken to be a compound of horn and the etymon represented by Modern English beam entry 1, which in Old English and early Middle English could mean "tree." However, the scant Middle English attestation—a single occurrence of the word in Chancery inquisitions as hernbem, and forms of the Hertfordshire place name Hornbeam Lane (Herinbemegatestret, Hernebemgate)—suggest that horn may have been a folk etymology from an earlier word.

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of hornbeam was in the 14th century

Phrases Containing hornbeam
BNC: 49669 COCA: 42340

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