Antarctic beech

British  

noun

1. any tree of the genus Nothofagus , related to the beech and native to temperate Australasia and South America, esp Nothofagus cunninghamii of SE Australia or Nothofagus moorei of NE Australia

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Example Sentences

Above this grows a forest of trees, of which the greater number are the antarctic beech, and nearly all the rest are species of magnolia.

From Project Gutenberg

When the weather got fine, we took a walk round the island as far as the ridge that bisected it would allow, finding the elevated ground clothed with thickly growing trees, principally a species of spruce fir called the antarctic beech, which runs to a height of some thirty or forty feet, with a girth of five or six feet.

From Project Gutenberg