- any deciduous tree of the genus Fagus, of temperate regions, having a smooth gray bark and bearing small, edible, triangular nuts.
- the wood from a beech tree of the genus Fagus, including the commonly cultivated European beech.
- any member of the beech family (Fagaceae).
- any N temperate tree of the genus Fagus, esp F. sylvatica of Europe, having smooth greyish bark: family Fagaceae
- any tree of the related genus Nothofagus, of temperate Australasia and South America
- the hard wood of any of these trees, used in making furniture, etc
- See copper beech
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