FAGUS SYLVATICA

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Meaning:

Large European beech with minutely-toothed leaves; widely planted as an ornamental in North America

Synonyms:

common beech; European beech; Fagus sylvatica

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Fagus sylvatica" 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 sylvatica" is a member of...):

Fagus; genus Fagus (beeches)

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