blue beech

English

The bark of a blue beech

Wikispecies

Etymology

blue (from the color of the bark) + beech (from the smooth bark or the form of the leaves)

Noun

blue beech (countable and uncountable, plural blue beeches)

1. Carpinus caroliniana, a deciduous tree of eastern North America.

Synonyms

• American hornbeam
• musclewood
• ironwood.