Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. A tall type of beech with smooth bark and reddish-brown to purple leaves.
WordNet
n. variety of European beech with shining purple or copper-colored leaves [syn: purple beech, Fagus sylvatica atropunicea, Fagus purpurea, Fagus sylvatica purpurea]
Wikipedia
Copper beech may refer to:
- An ornamental cultivar of the European Beech, Fagus sylvatica
- The Adventure of the Copper Beeches, a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle, part of the collection "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"
- The Copper Beech, a 1992 novel by Maeve Binchy
- Copper Beech Manor
Usage examples of "copper beech".
So he sat on the woodland floor and he told the copper beech everything he could think of: about his love, pure and true, for Victoria Forester.
We'll now do close-ups of the copper beech on which he carved his initials, and then straight down to the lake for the last shot.
I sat on an iron bench in the shade of an immense copper beech tree, watching two patients play.
To the west of the shrubbery, with its broken canopy of elms and beyond the copper beech which marked the center of its mazes, a gap offered a glimpse of the Waverney where it swept into a broad.
There was one last row of trees, ancient copper beech, with the new leaf buds on their gnarled branches just beginning to pop open.
Anne-Marie was sitting under a copper beech tree on the edge of the lawn which, in one corner of the garden, faced the windows of her bedroom.
He won't know Errel the dancer with hair the color of a copper beech.
She screamed his name in her head and it was like a blinding flash of agony as once again she watched his mortally wounded machine hit the top branches of the tall copper beech and cartwheel, wing over wing as it fell out of the air and struck the earth to collapse in a welter of broken struts and canvas.
Tall stumps of copper beech and sycamore trees lined the road, festooned in vines which dangled colourful flower clusters.
The three-foot thickness of hardwood vanished in a meter-wide sphere of magenta fire, and the great crown of the copper beech toppled downwards.
And Harry led me to a nook among the roots of the copper beech, where he showed me two dormice in an old tea-caddy.
Mountain ash and copper beech glistened and their leaves looked like coins, rich and freshly minted.
The beech, a tracery of bright green in the spring as the leaf buds burst, to an amazing display of autumn colours that range from yellow and orange through to red-brown and the deeper tones of the copper beech.