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Definition of 'beech'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

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

2. beech
the wood of such a tree.

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

Definition of 'beech'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) 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

2. (noun) beech, beechwood
wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles

Definition of 'beech'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) beech
a tall tree with nuts and gray bark
a yard planted with beeches

2. beech
a hard wood of the beech tree
a desk made out of beech

Definition of 'beech'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) beech
a tree of the genus Fagus

Translation of 'beech'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: (alsobeech tree) a kind of forest tree with smooth silvery bark and small nuts That tree is a beech; (
Afrikaans: beukeboom	Arabic: شَجَرَةُ الزّان	Bulgarian: бук
Brazilian: faia	Czech: buk(ový)	German: die Buche
Danish: bøg	Greek: οξιά	Spanish: haya
Estonian: pöök	Farsi: درخت راش	Finnish: pyökki
French: hêtre	Hebrew: אֲשוּר	Hindi: बीच वृक्ष
Croatian: bukva	Hungarian: bükk(fa)	Indonesian: b
Icelandic: beykitré	Italian: faggio	Japanese: ぶなの木
Korean: 너도밤나무	Lithuanian: bukas	Latvian: dižskābardis; dižskābarža
Malay: pokok bic	Dutch: beuk; beuken-	Norwegian: bøk(etre)
Polish: buk	Persian: درخت راش	Portuguese: faia
Romanian: fag	Russian: бук	Slovak: buk; bukový
Slovenian: bukev; bukov	Serbian: bukva	Swedish: bok[träd]
Thai: ต้นบีช ต้นไม้ชนิดหนึ่งในเ	Turkish: kayın (ağacı)	Taiwanese: 山毛櫸樹
Ukrainian: бук	Urdu: دریا کے کنارے اگنے والا ا	Vietnamese: cây sồi
Chinese: 山毛榉树
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