BEECHWOOD

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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 ("beechwood" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Holonyms ("beechwood" 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)

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