RED BEECH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does red beech mean? 

• RED BEECH (noun)
  The noun RED BEECH has 2 senses:

1. North American forest tree with light green leaves and edible nuts

2. large tree of Australasia

  Familiarity information: RED BEECH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RED BEECH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

North American forest tree with light green leaves and edible nuts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

American beech; Fagus americana; Fagus grandifolia; red beech; white beech

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

Fagus; genus Fagus (beeches)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Large tree of Australasia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

booyong; brown oak; crow's foot; Heritiera trifoliolata; red beech; silky elm; stave wood; Terrietia trifoliolata

Hypernyms ("red beech" is a kind of...):

angiospermous tree; flowering tree (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)