(n.) A tree of the genus Carpinus (C. Americana), having a smooth gray bark and a ridged trunk, the wood being white and very hard. It is common along the banks of streams in the United States, and is also called ironwood. The English hornbeam is C. Betulus. The American is called also blue beech and water beech.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eight hand pulls, featuring such steady breweries as Hornbeam, Moorhouse's, Titanic and, often, a couple of beers from Thwaites, keep the regulars happy.
(2) Other clever additions include a 1km barefoot walk – yes mud, bark, hay and pebbles (but showers at the end) and a "hide and speak" hornbeam hedge maze with special talking pipes.
(3) It is similar to the N-terminal peptide sequences of the allergens of hazel, alder and hornbeam (close relatives) but it has no significant sequence homology to any other known allergens.
(4) The major allergens of birch (Bet v I), alder (Aln g I), hazel (Cor a I) and hornbeam (Car b I) were investigated by means of high-resolution two-dimensional electrophoresis combined with immunoblotting.
(5) Forty patients with tree pollen-induced allergy (rhinitis, conjunctivitis or combination from both with asthma) were hyposensitized with an extract from isolated birch pollen or a pollen mixture (hazel-, alder-, oak- and hornbeam pollen).
(6) Leaves from tolerant beech and hornbeam individuals did not undergo ultrastructural changes compared to control leaves in an unpolluted area.
(7) Cloning of the gene encoding the major allergen, Car b I, from Carpinus betulus (hornbeam) pollen was performed using the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) to specifically amplify the gene of interest using single stranded cDNA as template.
(8) RNAs were isolated from pollen of birch (Betula verrucosa), alder (Alnus glutinosa), hazel (Corylus avellana), and hornbeam (Carpinus betulus).
(9) In Southern Bohemia in places of original communities of acidophil oak forests, oak-hornbeam woods and their mosaic combinations as well as combinations of flowers and beech forests and meadows and alder trees the author detected 93.5% of the breeding places of ticks.
(10) Previous data showed that the major pollen allergens from trees of the order Fagales, in particular alder, birch, hazel, and hornbeam, are highly interrelated.
(11) Rabbit antibodies raised towards the major allergen Bet v I react with the major allergens of alder, hazel, hornbeam and oak, although with distinct variation in affinity.
(12) BIP 4 reacted with the 17-, 18.5- and 18-kDa spots of birch, alder and hornbeam, but did not react with the 17-kDa spots of hazel and the 16.5-kDa spots of hornbeam.
(13) To investigate the relationship of the major allergens of birch (Bet v I), alder (Aln g I), hazel (Cor a I), and hornbeam (Car b I) at the nucleic acid level, a cDNA clone coding for the complete Bet v I protein was used for Northern and Southern blot experiments.
(14) In Southern blots, distinct binding patterns of genomic DNA digests of birch, alder, hazel, and hornbeam were observed.
(15) Sparrow-hawks busked for custom overhead, deer picked their way through the hornbeam wood and tawny owls hooted from big ash trees.
(16) Most bands were observed with birch DNA digests and less with alder, whereas in genomic DNA digests of hornbeam and hazel, only one band was observed.
(17) Human IgE antibodies detected 10 spots in birch (Mr 17 kDa, pI 4.9-5.9); four spots in alder (Mr 18.5 kDa, pI 4.7-5.3); four spots in hazel (Mr 17 kDa, pI 5.0-5.8); and 12 + 7 spots in hornbeam (Mr 16.5 kDa, pI 4.9-6.6 and Mr 18 kDa, pI 5.2-6.7), respectively, representing major allergens.
Ironwood
Definition:
(n.) A tree unusually hard, strong, or heavy wood.
Example Sentences:
(1) The lowest readings Friday morning were in the Upper Peninsula, including zero degrees in Ironwood and 1 degree (-17C) in Iron Mountain.