beech

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

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

   A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.

2. 2
   noun

   An aircraft made by Beechcraft.

   The company had five Beeches for flying its top executives around.

3. 3
   noun

   any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs

4. 4
   noun

   wood of any of various beech trees

Common collocations

• beech tree Noun + noun

From Middle English beche, from Old English bēċe, from Proto-West Germanic *bōkijā (“beech”). Doublet of buky. Related to English book.

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