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Definition of Hop hornbeam
1. Noun. Any of several trees resembling hornbeams with fruiting clusters resembling hops.
Specialized synonyms: Old World Hop Hornbeam, Ostrya Carpinifolia, Eastern Hop Hornbeam, Ironwood, Ironwood Tree, Ostrya Virginiana
Generic synonyms: Tree
Definition of Hop hornbeam
1. Noun. A tree of the species ''Ostrya virginiana'' ¹
2. Noun. Its wood. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hop Hornbeam
Literary usage of Hop hornbeam
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Enquiry Into Plants and Minor Works on Odours and Weather Signs by Theophrastus (1916)
"Of leech, yew, hop-hornbeam, lime. X. The beech presents no differences, there
being but one kind. It is a straight-growing smooth and unbranched tree, ..."
2. Studies of Trees in Winter: A Description of the Deciduous Trees of by Annie Oakes Huntington (1902)
"... hop hornbeam, AND HORNBEAM Family Betulaceae THE birches are a family of
exceedingly graceful and attractive trees, and charm us quite as much in winter ..."
3. A Year Among the Trees: Or, The Woods and By-ways of New England by Wilson Flagg (1881)
"THE hop hornbeam. THE hop hornbeam is a very different tree from the one just
described, resembling it only in the toughness of its wood, whence the name of ..."
4. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1838)
"The hop hornbeam, in its general appearance, bark, branches, and foliage, ...
The hop hornbeam is commonly grafted on the common hornbeam ; but, ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1831)
"HOP-HORNBEAM. (See Iron-Wood.} HOPITAL, Michael de 1", an eminent chancellor of
France, was born in 1505, at Aigueperse, in Auvergne. ..."
6. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1906)
"The branchlets of the hop-hornbeam resembles those of the elm, its leaves are
very like those of the birch, while the appearance of its fruit, so similar to ..."
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