hornbeam
- n any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Carpinus
- Under the hornbeam tree he preached his first faltering homily.
- After a three-year restoration, the castle garden has been returned to its former grandeur--resplendent with hornbeam bosquets, groomed terraces and exquisite parterre beds .
- With the names of trees you can make a fine pagan bouquet of words: hornbeam, ginkgo, quickbeam, oak, white willow, tamarind, Lombardy poplar, false cypress, elder, laburnum, larch .