carpinus caroliniana

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

   SynonymsAmerican hornbeam

   Broaderhornbeam

   Part ofCarpinus

Questions about carpinus caroliniana

What does carpinus caroliniana mean?

carpinus caroliniana means "tree or large shrub with grey bark and blue-green leaves that turn red-orange in autumn".

What is another word for carpinus caroliniana?

Close synonyms include American hornbeam. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is carpinus caroliniana a common word?

carpinus caroliniana is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.