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Noun beech has 2 senses
  1. beech, beech tree - 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
    --1 is a kind of tree
    --1 is a member of Fagus, genus Fagus
    --1 has parts: beechnut
    --1 has substances: beech, beechwood
    --1 has particulars:
     common beech, European beech, Fagus sylvatica; copper beech, purple beech, Fagus sylvatica atropunicea, Fagus purpurea, Fagus sylvatica purpurea; American beech, white beech, red beech, Fagus grandifolia, Fagus americana; weeping beech, Fagus pendula, Fagus sylvatica pendula; Japanese beech
  2. beech, beechwood - wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles
    --2 is a kind of wood
    --2 is a substance of beech, beech tree
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