Meaning

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

More definitions
  • 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

Examples

2 sentences
  1. In the woods beyond the village are oak and beech trees, as well as some hazelnut bushes.

    deIm Wald hinter dem Dorf stehen Eichen, Buchen und ein paar Haselnusssträuche.

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  2. This beech tree is roughly a hundred years old, and its crown measures about twelve metres in diameter.

    ruЭтому буку примерно сто лет, а диаметр его кроны составляет около двенадцати метров.

    deDiese Buche hat ein Alter von annähernd einhundert Jahren und einen Kronendurchmesser von rund zwölf Metern.

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Forms

plural: beech trees
Singularbeech tree
Pluralbeech trees

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Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in 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:beech

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