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 Translation for 'whitebeam' from English to Icelandic
NOUN   a whitebeam | whitebeams
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fagurreynir {k} [Sorbus latifolia, syn.: S. bristoliensis, S. devoniensis, Crataegus latifolia, Pyrus decipiens, P. rotundifolia]
broadleaf / broad-leaf whitebeam
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goðareynir {k} [Sorbus latifolia, Syn.: S. bristoliensis, S. devoniensis, Crataegus latifolia, Pyrus decipiens, P. rotundifolia]
broadleaf / broad-leaf whitebeam
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úlfareynir {k} [Sorbus x hostii]
dwarf whitebeam
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Usage Examples English
  • 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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