| NOUN | plant | southern beech, evergreen beech | any of various beeches of the southern hemisphere having small usually evergreen leaves |
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| Meaning | Any of various beeches of the southern hemisphere having small usually evergreen leaves. | |
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| Synonym | evergreen beech | |
| Member of | Nothofagus, genus Nothofagus | beeches of temperate southern hemisphere except Africa |
| Narrower | Coigue, Nothofagus dombeyi | Chilean evergreen whose leafy boughs are used for thatching |
| New Zealand beech | Any of several tall New Zealand trees of the genus Nothofagus | |
| black beech, Nothofagus solanderi | New Zealand forest / forest tree | |
| hard beech, Nothofagus truncata | tall New Zealand tree yielding very hard wood | |
| myrtle beech, Nothofagus cuninghamii | large evergreen tree of Tasmania | |
| rauli beech, Nothofagus procera | large Chilean timber tree yielding coarse lumber | |
| roble beech, Nothofagus obliqua | tall deciduous South American tree | |
| Broader | tree | A tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown |
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