COPPER BEECH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does copper beech mean? 

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

1. variety of European beech with shining purple or copper-colored leaves

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COPPER BEECH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

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

Hypernyms ("copper beech" 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 ("copper beech" is a member of...):

Fagus; genus Fagus (beeches)