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BEECH TREE

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

beech; beech tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("beech tree" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Meronyms (parts of "beech tree"):

beechnut (small sweet triangular nut of any of various beech trees)

Meronyms (substance of "beech tree"):

beech; beechwood (wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "beech tree"):

common beech; European beech; Fagus sylvatica (large European beech with minutely-toothed leaves; widely planted as an ornamental in North America)

copper beech; Fagus purpurea; Fagus sylvatica atropunicea; Fagus sylvatica purpurea; purple beech (variety of European beech with shining purple or copper-colored leaves)

American beech; Fagus americana; Fagus grandifolia; red beech; white beech (North American forest tree with light green leaves and edible nuts)

Fagus pendula; Fagus sylvatica pendula; weeping beech (variety of European beech with pendulous limbs)

Japanese beech (a beech native to Japan having soft light yellowish-brown wood)

Holonyms ("beech tree" is a member of...):

Fagus; genus Fagus (beeches)

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