beech mast

How to use beech mast in a sentence

• Beech-mast rather increased than appeased his hunger; and nothing came in view that could be shot.

  Cedar Creek | Elizabeth Hely Walshe

• Beech-nuts—or beech-mast, as it is called—are eaten by many animals.

  Miscellanea | Juliana Horatia Ewing

• At the end of autumn, and in winter, most of them withdraw into the woods where they feed on beech-mast, nuts and acorns.

  Buffon's Natural History. Volume VI (of 10) | Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon

• They were so pretty—but they crept like swift, erratic mice, running here and there among the beech-mast.

  The Prussian Officer | D. H. Lawrence

• beech mast is so called also, because beech trees abounded in the forest of Dodona.

  Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 | The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.