beechwood

American  

[beech-wood] / ˈbitʃˌwʊd /

noun

• beechwoods
  plural

1. beech.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• beechwoods
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of beechwood

First recorded in 1675–85; beech + wood ¹

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Example Sentences

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beechwood beechwoods

It’s a striking dose of color in a hall that is a sea of beige beechwood.

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2022

The interiors are decidedly all un-palazzo-like straight lines, optic white walls, steel appliances, beechwood furnishings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2022

Made in France, the Charlie Crane Levo Baby Rocker in beechwood with an organic, off-white padded seat is luxury fit for modern royalty.

From Seattle Times ● May 26, 2021

“I’ve been giving these out the past couple of months. They’re printed on beechwood and they’re really graphic and nicely made.”

From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2018

He stumped in on a crude wooden leg he himself had carved out of beechwood.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

By the final stretch you will be hurtling through beechwoods and might spot the odd rabbit scampering past.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 13, 2017

And after a time they vanished, and he heard their voices, like a party of Cockney beanfeasters, away in the beechwoods.

From Tales of Space and Time by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

And confound redheaded school-ma'ams with a habit of popping out of beechwoods where they had no business to be.

From Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

I climbed through great beechwoods, which seemed in the twilight like some green place far below the sea, and then over a short stretch of hill pasture to the rim of the vale.

From Mr. Standfast by John Buchan

The Squire's beechwoods were famous in the neighbourhood, and he was still proud of them; though for many years past they had gone unnoticed to decay, and were in some places badly diseased.

From Elizabeth's Campaign by Mrs. Humphry Ward

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