BEECH TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does beech tree mean? 

• BEECH TREE (noun)
  The noun BEECH TREE has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: BEECH TREE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEECH TREE (noun)

Sense 1

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

beech; beech tree

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)

 Context examples 

"Not only a fellow-countryman, my good sir," said Challenger, "but also, if I may be allowed to enlarge your simile, an ally of the first value. This beech tree will be our saviour."

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was our beech tree.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)