The Collaborative International Dictionary
Beech tree
Beech tree \Beech" tree`\ The beech.
WordNet
beech tree
n. any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth gray bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions [syn: beech]
Usage examples of "beech tree".
He saw lightning striking a huge beech tree and, out of the flash, a great fire burning on a bare hillside against a black sky.
Will climbed to the old beech tree, and stood watching the nearest spring foam out from beneath a huge snow-mounded root.
Behind him, the great beech tree was cleft down the middle, blazing with great flames, and he realised with amazement that the eager current of the island's four streams was growing less and less, dwindling down to nothing.