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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;

has parts: beechnut

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

beech(n = noun.plant) beechwood - wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles;

is a kind of wood

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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]

Beech drops (Bot.), a parasitic plant which grows on the roots of beeches (Epiphegus Americana). -- Beech marten (Zoöl.), the stone marten of Europe (Mustela foina). -- Beech mast, the nuts of the beech, esp. as they lie under the trees, in autumn. -- Beech oil, oil expressed from the mast or nuts of the beech tree. -- Cooper beech, a variety of the European beech with copper-colored, shining leaves.

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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.

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