FagusWordNet Explorer

beeches

genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins

chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs: beeches; chestnuts; oaks; genera Castanea, Castanopsis, Chrysolepis, Fagus, Lithocarpus, Nothofagus, Quercus

any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions

large European beech with minutely-toothed leaves; widely planted as an ornamental in North America

variety of European beech with shining purple or copper-colored leaves

North American forest tree with light green leaves and edible nuts

variety of European beech with pendulous limbs