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beech
1. n. A tree of the genus Fagus having a smooth, light grey trunk, oval, pointed leaves and many branches.
2. n. The wood of the beech tree.

Example Sentences

For no reason I stopped under a huge beech tree on the edge of the wood.  On a warm, sunny day last week, I scrambled across a bank in the northern woods, down to the edge of the river where the woodland floor was bathed in sunlight and shielded from the easterly wind by beech trees and bramble.

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