FAGUS PURPUREA

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Meaning:

Variety of European beech with shining purple or copper-colored leaves

Synonyms:

copper beech; Fagus purpurea; Fagus sylvatica atropunicea; Fagus sylvatica purpurea; purple beech

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Fagus purpurea" is a kind of...):

beech; 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)

Holonyms ("Fagus purpurea" is a member of...):

Fagus; genus Fagus (beeches)

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