JAPANESE BEECH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Japanese beech mean? 

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

1. a beech native to Japan having soft light yellowish-brown wood

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• JAPANESE BEECH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A beech native to Japan having soft light yellowish-brown wood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

Fagus; genus Fagus (beeches)