beech
noun
any deciduous tree of the genus Fagus, of temperate regions, having a smooth gray bark and bearing small, edible, triangular nuts.
beeches
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pluralof beech.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Multiple trees, including three of the famous Dark Hedges beeches, were damaged in the storm leaving some roads impassable.
From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2024
Here’s what we do know, as researchers at Carnegie Museum of Natural History laid out in a paper published earlier this year: The most common deciduous offenders are oaks and beeches.
From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2023
In western Queens, like Hunters Point, Sunnyside and Long Island City, we’ll go with beeches and Kentucky yellowwood.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2022
“We have beeches dying now, we have maples dying … and pines that were considered pretty drought tolerant,” says Henrik Hartmann, a plant scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 2, 2021
The great branches of the beeches moved little, but spoke loudly.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
