Antarctic beech

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noun

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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Words nearby Antarctic beech

antapex, antaranga, Antarctic, Antarctica, Antarctic Archipelago, Antarctic beech, Antarctic Circle, Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Antarctic Convergence, Antarctic Ocean, Antarctic Peninsula

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How to use Antarctic beech in a sentence

Beech-Nut is still in existence, and is the third largest baby food manufacturer in the United States.
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White King Soap sponsored the show on the West Coast, and Beech-Nut Gum in the East.
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With just two small, double engine Beech 18s and a handful of employees, Phoenix was born.
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As forbidding as this terrain is, there is another force at work on the ocean surface – the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
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There were long brown mountains and a few pines and far-off forests of beech-trees on some of the mountainsides.
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It has been shown by Chevandrier, that an acre of land under beech wood accumulates annually about 1650 lb.
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry|Thomas Anderson
The merchant would no longer expose his cargoes to the mountainous billows and capricious gales of the Antarctic seas.
The History of England from the Accession of James II.|Thomas Babington Macaulay
The emblems on his monument are a branch of beech, a winged A, a wreathed snake and a lamp.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
We had no time to make a dash for the house, so we took shelter under some spreading beech trees at the edge of the woods.
The Red Cow and Her Friends|Peter McArthur
There used to be a tradition that lightning never strikes a beech tree, but that was not our reason for choosing them.
The Red Cow and Her Friends|Peter McArthur