beech
noun
Simple meaning
The wood of the beech tree.
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biːt͡ʃ
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noun
The wood of the beech tree.
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- Difficulty
- B2 · Upper Intermediate
- Frequency
- Moderately Common
- Typical Use
- Neutral / general English
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Eurasian marten having a brown coat with pale breast and throat.
Any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs.
Any fern of the genus Phegopteris having deeply cut triangular fronds.
Chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs: beeches.
New Zealand forest tree.
Beech fern of North American woodlands having straw-colored stripes.
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Wood of any of various beech trees.
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Sense: wood of the beech tree
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