hornbeams

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hornbeams 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 (Ostrya virginiana).
The wood of these trees.

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hornbeech ironwood musclewood scarlet oak beeches lindens deodar cedar podocarpus ligustrum mahonia catalpa liriodendron arbor vitae blackthorn liquidambar flowering quince yews photinia

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