beech

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beech /biːtʃ/ noun [countable, uncountable]  HBPa large tree with smooth grey bark (=outer covering), or the wood from this tree 山毛榉；榉木

Examples from the Corpus

beech• Chunks of oak, ash, alder, beech, sycamore and hazel lay here and there, awaiting their miracles.• And beech and lime showed dieback in Richmond Park.• Under the high canopy of bronze beech, pale green ash and golden lime leaves the streams merge.• Copses of beech and alder appeared, straggling along the banks with their roots lost in a tangle of briars and bracken.• On top of the hill was a wood of beech trees surrounded by a stone wall.• By 1984, half the supply of spruce, pine, beech and oak had some degree of unnatural damage.• Dry tan beech leaves that have survived all the winter storms now rattle softly on a low branch.• The village swine fed on the beech mast on Steep Ridgery.Origin beech Old English bece

beech nounChinese  

with smooth Corpus tree bark or covering), grey a (=outer large

beech
beech /biːtʃ/ noun [uncountable and countable]a large tree with smooth grey bark (=outer covering), or the wood from this tree

beechBrE /biːtʃ/ 🔊NAmE /biːtʃ/ 🔊 noun

[uncountable, countable] (also ˈbeech tree [countable] ) a tall forest tree with smooth grey bark, shiny leaves and small nuts 山毛榉◆forests planted with beech山毛榉林◆beech hedges山毛榉树篱◆The great beeches towered up towards the sky. 一棵棵山毛榉高耸入云。🔊🔊  ➡  see also copper beech (also ˈbeech·wood BrE /ˈbiːtʃwʊd/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈbiːtʃwʊd/ 🔊) [uncountable] the wood of the beech tree 山毛榉木材