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beech

[ beech ]

noun

  1. any deciduous tree of the genus Fagus, of temperate regions, having a smooth gray bark and bearing small, edible, triangular nuts.
  2. Also called beechwood. the wood from a beech tree of the genus Fagus, including the commonly cultivated European beech.
  3. any member of the beech family (Fagaceae).


beech

/ biːtʃ /

noun

  1. any N temperate tree of the genus Fagus , esp F. sylvatica of Europe, having smooth greyish bark: family Fagaceae
  2. any tree of the related genus Nothofagus , of temperate Australasia and South America
  3. the hard wood of any of these trees, used in making furniture, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈbeechen, adjective
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Other Words From

  • beech·en adjective
  • beech·y adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of beech1

First recorded before 900; Middle English beche, Old English bēce, bōce, from Proto-Germanic bōkjōn-; akin to Old Saxon, Middle Low German boke, Dutch beuk, Old High German buohha ( German Buche ), Old Norse bōk, Latin fāgus “beech,” Doric Greek phāgós “oak,” Albanian bung “oak” (apparently not akin to book )
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Word History and Origins

Origin of beech1

Old English bēce ; related to Old Norse bók , Old High German buohha , Middle Dutch boeke , Latin fāgus beech, Greek phēgos edible oak
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Example Sentences

Instead, to deliver some guts, the Austrian brand’s designers trusted the damping and stability of its poplar and beech core.

Two sheets of titanal back a poplar and beech wood core with most of the denser beech positioned underfoot for added power.

These relationships are important for the southern beech trees that dominate Patagonia’s forests.

Sleep behavior has been researched in birches and oaks, and beeches can measure day length—all of this requires light receptors that transmit signals to the trees and spur the whole organism into action.

Beech-Nut is still in existence, and is the third largest baby food manufacturer in the United States.

White King Soap sponsored the show on the West Coast, and Beech-Nut Gum in the East.

With just two small, double engine Beech 18s and a handful of employees, Phoenix was born.

There were long brown mountains and a few pines and far-off forests of beech-trees on some of the mountainsides.

Somewhere over the rainbow—specifically atop Beech Mountain in western North Carolina—a yellow brick road leads straight to Oz.

It has been shown by Chevandrier, that an acre of land under beech wood accumulates annually about 1650 lb.

The emblems on his monument are a branch of beech, a winged A, a wreathed snake and a lamp.

We had no time to make a dash for the house, so we took shelter under some spreading beech trees at the edge of the woods.

There used to be a tradition that lightning never strikes a beech tree, but that was not our reason for choosing them.

In a little while the high beech-ridge over which she had been travelling ended in a narrow cedar-swamp.

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