Definitions for beeches

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beeches beech

Spelling: [beech]

IPA: /bitʃ/

Beeches is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 68 anagrams from letters in beeches (bceeehs).

Definitions for beeches

noun

1. any tree of the genus Fagus, of temperate regions, having a smooth gray bark and bearing small, edible, triangular nuts.
2. Also called beechwood. the wood of such a tree.
3. any member of the plant family Fagaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having alternate, usually toothed or lobed leaves, male flowers in catkins and female flowers either solitary or in clusters and bearing a nut enclosed in a cupule or bur, including the beeches, chestnuts, and oaks.

Origin of beeches

before 900; Middle English beche, Old English bēce Germanic *bōkjōn-; akin to Old Saxon, Middle Low German boke, Dutch beuk, Old High German buohha (German Buche), Old Norse bōk, Latin fāgus

Examples for beeches

It is abundant everywhere on fallen beech or on beech stumps.

Somewhere over the rainbow—specifically atop beech Mountain in western North Carolina—a yellow brick road leads straight to Oz.

It is found on oak and beech branches, frequently in large groups.

It was not until the second day that Mr. beech thought of Mr. Gubb at all.

No tree has so fair a bole and so handsome an instep as the beech.

This plant is found in open woods where there are beech trees.

Go to the beech grove, and live with them there,—was that her fate?

I have always found it on beech logs, from September to October.

I know the beech and the maple, and some kinds of oak, but there my wood lore ends.

He had limbs of great length, and muscles like the gnarled heads of a beech.