AMERICAN HORNBEAM

 Dictionary entry overview: What does American hornbeam mean? 

• AMERICAN HORNBEAM (noun)
  The noun AMERICAN HORNBEAM has 1 sense:

1. tree or large shrub with grey bark and blue-green leaves that turn red-orange in autumn

  Familiarity information: AMERICAN HORNBEAM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMERICAN HORNBEAM (noun)

Meaning:

Tree or large shrub with grey bark and blue-green leaves that turn red-orange in autumn

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

American hornbeam; Carpinus caroliniana

Hypernyms ("American hornbeam" is a kind of...):

hornbeam (any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Carpinus)

Holonyms ("American hornbeam" is a member of...):

Carpinus; genus Carpinus (mostly deciduous monoecious trees or shrubs: hornbeams; sometimes placed in subfamily Carpinaceae)