Translation for '
whitebeam' from English to Icelandic
NOUN | a whitebeam | whitebeams | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
| gras.T fagurreynir {k} [Sorbus latifolia, syn.: S. bristoliensis, S. devoniensis, Crataegus latifolia, Pyrus decipiens, P. rotundifolia] | broadleaf / broad-leaf whitebeam | |
| gras.T goðareynir {k} [Sorbus latifolia, Syn.: S. bristoliensis, S. devoniensis, Crataegus latifolia, Pyrus decipiens, P. rotundifolia] | broadleaf / broad-leaf whitebeam | |
| gras.T úlfareynir {k} [Sorbus x hostii] | dwarf whitebeam | |
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Translation for 'whitebeam' from English to Icelandic
- broadleaf / broad-leaf whitebeam
- fagurreynir {k} [Sorbus latifolia, syn.: S. bristoliensis, S. devoniensis, Crataegus latifolia, Pyrus decipiens, P. rotundifolia]gras.T
goðareynir {k} [Sorbus latifolia, Syn.: S. bristoliensis, S. devoniensis, Crataegus latifolia, Pyrus decipiens, P. rotundifolia]gras.T
- dwarf whitebeam
- úlfareynir {k} [Sorbus x hostii]gras.T
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- Five species of whitebeam occur including the narrow-leaved whitebeam ("Sorbus leptophylla") and lesser whitebeam ("Sorbus minima") which are endemic to Wales.
- "Sorbus mougeotii", the Vosges whitebeam or Mougeot's whitebeam, is a species of whitebeam native to the mountains of central and western Europe from the Pyrenees east through the Alps to Austria, and north to the Vosges Mountains.
- These trees, sometimes called the Scottish or Arran whitebeam ("Sorbus arranensis"), the bastard mountain ash or cut-leaved whitebeam ("Sorbus pseudofennica") and the Catacol whitebeam ("Sorbus pseudomeinichii") are, if rarity is measured by numbers alone, amongst the most endangered tree species in the world.
- The Isle of Arran is the only place in which the Catacol whitebeam ("Sorbus pseudomeinichii") is to be found.
- Killarney whitebeam ("Sorbus anglica") is a shrub or small tree that grows on rocks close to lakeshores.
- The Houston's Whitebeam was one of fourteen new whitebeam trees officially named in the February 2009 issue of Watsonia, the journal of the Botanical Society of the British Isles.
- The common sorbus aucuparia lives side-by-side with the sorbus rupicola or rock whitebeam.
- The quarry supports some trees and scrub such as common whitebeam, ash, hawthorn and hazel.
- The surface of the leaf is an unremarkable mid-green, but the underside is almost white (hence the name) transforming the appearance of the tree in strong winds, as noted by the poet Meredith: "flashing as in gusts the sudden-lighted whitebeam".
- It probably did not exist before the last ice age, arising from a hybrid between "Sorbus torminalis" the wild service tree and another whitebeam.
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