beech

n. type of tree; wood from this tree

Not to be confused with Birch. Beech (Fagus) is a genus of ten species of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Europe, Asia, and North America. Beech was a late entrant to Britain after the last glaciation, and may have been restricted to basic soils in the south of England. Today, beech is widely planted for hedging and in deciduous woodlands, and mature, regenerating stands occur throughout mainland Britain below about 650m. The leaves are entire or sparsely toothed, from 5-15 cm long and 4-10 cm broad. The flowers are small single-sex, wind-pollinated catkins, produced in spring shortly after the new leaves appear. The bark is smooth and light gray. The fruit is a small, sharply 3-angled nut 10-15 mm long, borne in pairs in soft-spined husks 1.5-2.5 cm long, known as cupules. The nuts are edible, though bitter with a high tannin content, and are called beechmast.
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Noun
1. any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth gray bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions
(synonym) beech tree
(hypernym) tree
(hyponym) common beech, European beech, Fagus sylvatica
(member-holonym) Fagus, genus Fagus
(substance-meronym) beechwood
(part-meronym) beechnut
2. wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles
(synonym) beechwood
(hypernym) wood
(substance-holonym) beech tree

(n.)
A tree of the genus Fagus.
  

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