different between musclewood vs hornbeam

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

muscle (“from the sinewy appearance of the trunk and branches”) +? wood

Noun

musclewood (countable and uncountable, plural musclewoods)

1. A common name for the species Carpinus caroliniana, a species of deciduous tree.
2. (uncountable) The wood of this species.
3. (countable) A tree of this species.

Synonyms

• American hornbeam
• blue beech
• ironwood

English

Etymology

c. 1570, from Old English horn + beam (“tree”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h??n?bi?m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?h??n?bim/

Noun

hornbeam (plural hornbeams)

1. 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.
2. A hop hornbeam (Ostrya virginiana).
3. The wood of these trees.

Synonyms

• hornbeech, ironwood, musclewood

Hyponyms

• blue beech

Translations

See also

• hornbeam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Carpinus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Carpinus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

References

• hornbeam in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.