Definitions for beechbitʃ

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

beechbitʃ(n.)

  1. any tree of the genus Fagus, of temperate regions, having a smooth gray bark and bearing small, edible, triangular nuts.

    Category: Plants

  2. the wood of such a tree.

    Category: Plants

Origin of beech:

bef. 900; ME beche, OE bēce; akin to OS boke, OHG buohha, ON bōk, L fāgus beech, Doric Gk phāgós, Albanian bung oak

beech′en(adj.)

Princeton's WordNet

  1. beech, beech tree(noun)

    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

  2. beech, beechwood(noun)

    wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

  1. beech(noun)ʃ

    a tall tree with nuts and gray bark

    a yard planted with beeches

  2. beechʃ

    a hard wood of the beech tree

    a desk made out of beech

Wiktionary

  1. beech(Noun)

    A tree of the genus Fagus having a smooth, light grey trunk, oval, pointed leaves and many branches.

  2. beech(Noun)

    The wood of the beech tree.

  3. Origin: From beche, from bece, from bōkijōn (compare Dutch beuk, German Buche, Danish bøg), from bōks 'beech; book'. More at book.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Beech(noun)

    a tree of the genus Fagus


Translations for beech

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

beech(noun)

(also beech tree ) a kind of forest tree with smooth silvery bark and small nuts

That tree is a beech; (also adjective) a beech forest.

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