Definition of Hop hornbeam

1. Noun. Any of several trees resembling hornbeams with fruiting clusters resembling hops.


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

hooves
hooving
hoowee
hooyah
hop
hop, skip, and a jump
hop-picker
hop-skip
hop-step-and-jump
hop a freight
hop clover
hop field
hop freight
hop garden
hop gardens
hop hornbeam (current term)
hop hornbeams
hop it
hop joint
hop marjoram
hop n pop
hop off
hop on
hop out
hop pole
hop to it
hop up
hopak
hopaks
hopane

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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