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
The violinist Lady Jess played a wistful improvisation as we walked past her, through a tunnel formed by weeping beeches.
From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2020
The bark of certain trees looks stunning in winter, including paperbark maples, birches, beeches, magnolias and stewartias.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 19, 2019
We walked on the road between the thick trunks of the old beeches and the sunlight came through the leaves in light patches on the grass.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
