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SOUTHERN BEECH

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Meaning:

Any of various beeches of the southern hemisphere having small usually evergreen leaves

Synonyms:

evergreen beech; southern beech

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("southern beech" 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)

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

myrtle beech; Nothofagus cuninghamii (large evergreen tree of Tasmania)

Coigue; Nothofagus dombeyi (Chilean evergreen whose leafy boughs are used for thatching)

New Zealand beech (any of several tall New Zealand trees of the genus Nothofagus; some yield useful timber)

Nothofagus obliqua; roble beech (tall deciduous South American tree)

Nothofagus procera; rauli beech (large Chilean timber tree yielding coarse lumber)

black beech; Nothofagus solanderi (New Zealand forest tree)

hard beech; Nothofagus truncata (tall New Zealand tree yielding very hard wood)

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

genus Nothofagus; Nothofagus (beeches of temperate southern hemisphere except Africa: southern beech)

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