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Beech
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Beech has 2 senses
- beech(n = noun.plant) beech tree - any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions; Array has parts: beechnut
- beech(n = noun.plant) beechwood - wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles; Array is a kind of wood
is a member of fagus, genus fagus
has particulars: common beech, european beech, fagus sylvatica, copper beech, fagus purpurea, fagus sylvatica atropunicea, fagus sylvatica purpurea, purple beech, american beech, fagus americana, fagus grandifolia, red beech, white beech, fagus pendula, fagus sylvatica pendula, weeping beech, japanese beech
is a kind of tree
CIDE DICTIONARY
Beech, n. [OE. beche, AS. bce; akin to D. beuk, OHG. buocha, G. buche, Icel. beyki, Dan. bög, Sw. bok, Russ. buk, L. fagus, Gr. oak, to eat, Skr. bhaksh; the tree being named originally from the esculent fruit. See Book, and cf. 7th Buck, Buckwheat.].
A tree of the genus Fagus . [1913 Webster]
" It grows to a large size, having a smooth bark and thick foliage, and bears an edible triangular nut, of which swine are fond. The Fagus sylvatica is the European species, and the Fagus ferruginea that of America."
[1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Beech, n.
1 any large forest tree of the genus Fagus, having smooth grey bark and glossy leaves.
2 (also beechwood) its wood.
3 Austral. any of various similar trees in Australia.
1 any large forest tree of the genus Fagus, having smooth grey bark and glossy leaves.
2 (also beechwood) its wood.
3 Austral. any of various similar trees in Australia.
Idiom
beech-fern a fern, Thelypteris phagopteris, found in damp woods. beech-marten a white-breasted marten, Martes foina, of S. Europe and Asia.
Derivative
beechy adj.
Etymology
OE bece f. Gmc
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