beech /bēch/

1. A common forest-tree of the genus Fagus with smooth grey bark
2. Extended to the related genus Nothofagus and to many trees not related
3. The wood of such a tree

beechˈen adjective (archaic)

beechˈ-drops noun

Cancer root, an American orobanchaceous plant parasitic on beech roots

beech fern noun

A fern of the family Thelypteridaceae (a mistranslation of Phegopteris; from Gr phēgos, a kind of oak)

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