English > Fagus: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | beeches. |
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| Synonym | genus Fagus |
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| Member of | Fagaceae, family Fagaceae, beech family | chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs |
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| Members | American beech, white beech, red beech, Fagus grandifolia, Fagus americana | North American forest / forest tree with light green leaves and edible nuts |
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| Japanese beech | A beech native to Japan having soft light yellowish-brown wood |
| beech, beech tree | Any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs |
| common beech, European beech, Fagus sylvatica | large European beech with minutely-toothed leaves |
| copper beech, purple beech, Fagus sylvatica atropunicea, Fagus purpurea, Fagus sylvatica purpurea | Variety of European beech with shining purple or copper-colored leaves |
| weeping beech, Fagus pendula, Fagus sylvatica pendula | Variety of European beech with pendulous limbs |
| Broader | hamamelid dicot genus | genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins |
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| Spanish | fagus, género fagus, genus fagus |
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| Catalan | Fagus, fagus, genus fagus |
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