beech
noun
any deciduous tree of the genus Fagus, of temperate regions, having a smooth gray bark and bearing small, edible, triangular nuts.
beechen
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a word derived from
beech.
Example Sentences
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When Sam awoke, he found that he was lying on some soft bed, but over him gently swayed wide beechen boughs, and through their young leaves sunlight glimmered, green and gold.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
You may travel far, without beholding a spot more bewitching than the land of the beechen “weed;” and embosomed within the undulating arms of the Chilterns is many a spot worthy of wider renown.
From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid
The oak-crown’d Sisters, and their chaste-eyed Queen, 75 Satyrs and Sylvan Boys, were seen, Peeping from forth their alleys green: Brown Exercise rejoiced to hear; And Sport leapt up, and seized his beechen spear.
From The Poetical Works of William Collins With a Memoir by William Collins
Half-sunk in sleep beneath the beechen boughs, Where thin the wood-gnats ail.
From A Voice on the Wind and Other Poems by Madison Julius Cawein
In the profound stillness, on a windless day, of the vast beechen woods, these sonorous notes had a singularly beautiful effect.
From Birds and Man by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
