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BEECH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
beech; beech tree
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("beech" is a kind of...):
tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)
Meronyms (parts of "beech"):
beechnut (small sweet triangular nut of any of various beech trees)
Meronyms (substance of "beech"):
beech; beechwood (wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "beech"):
common beech; European beech; Fagus sylvatica (large European beech with minutely-toothed leaves; widely planted as an ornamental in North America)
copper beech; Fagus purpurea; Fagus sylvatica atropunicea; Fagus sylvatica purpurea; purple beech (variety of European beech with shining purple or copper-colored leaves)
American beech; Fagus americana; Fagus grandifolia; red beech; white beech (North American forest tree with light green leaves and edible nuts)
Fagus pendula; Fagus sylvatica pendula; weeping beech (variety of European beech with pendulous limbs)
Japanese beech (a beech native to Japan having soft light yellowish-brown wood)
Holonyms ("beech" is a member of...):
Fagus; genus Fagus (beeches)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles
Synonyms:
beech; beechwood
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("beech" is a kind of...):
wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)
Holonyms ("beech" is a substance 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)
Context examples:
"Not only a fellow-countryman, my good sir," said Challenger, "but also, if I may be allowed to enlarge your simile, an ally of the first value. This beech tree will be our saviour."
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was one afternoon, when he chanced to meet me and Adele in the grounds: and while she played with Pilot and her shuttlecock, he asked me to walk up and down a long beech avenue within sight of her.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Without, the sun shines bright and the birds are singing amid the ivy on the drooping beeches.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I was standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper beeches.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"Why," I cried, "it's a beech!"
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Dim memories he had of beetling cliffs, of a group of huts with wondering faces at the doors, of foaming, clattering water, and of a bristle of mountain beeches.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He ran up and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was our beech tree.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In silence they wandered together over the velvet turf and on through the broad Minstead woods, where the old lichen-draped beeches threw their circles of black shadow upon the sunlit sward.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
From where they now stood they could look forward down a long vista of beech woods and jagged rock-strewn wilderness, all white with snow, to where the pass opened out upon the uplands beyond.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
