Beech
noun
A type of large tree with smooth grey bark, glossy leaves, and hard, pale, fine-grained timber.
They planted a beech tree in the backyard.
Often appears as...
- beech tree
- beech forest
noun
A type of large tree with smooth grey bark, glossy leaves, and hard, pale, fine-grained timber.
They planted a beech tree in the backyard.
Often appears as...
- beech tree
- beech forest
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Natural Setting
Used to describe natural environments or to evoke a sense of nature.
The park's landscape was adorned with towering beeches.
Pro Tip 2/3Wood Quality
Mention beech wood when talking about its durability and fine-grain for furniture or flooring.
The carpenter praised the beech wood's quality.
Pro Tip 3/3Literary Imagery
In literature, beech trees are often used to create peaceful or ancient forest imagery.
Their initials were carved into an old beech, marking endless love.
Pro Tip 1/3Natural Setting
Used to describe natural environments or to evoke a sense of nature.
The park's landscape was adorned with towering beeches.
Pro Tip 2/3Wood Quality
Mention beech wood when talking about its durability and fine-grain for furniture or flooring.
The carpenter praised the beech wood's quality.
Pro Tip 3/3Literary Imagery
In literature, beech trees are often used to create peaceful or ancient forest imagery.
Their initials were carved into an old beech, marking endless love.
Pro Tip 1/3Natural Setting
Used to describe natural environments or to evoke a sense of nature.
The park's landscape was adorned with towering beeches.
Pro Tip 2/3Wood Quality
Mention beech wood when talking about its durability and fine-grain for furniture or flooring.
The carpenter praised the beech wood's quality.
Pro Tip 3/3Literary Imagery
In literature, beech trees are often used to create peaceful or ancient forest imagery.
Their initials were carved into an old beech, marking endless love.
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Discovering Wildlife in...
So they like to grow on broad leaf deadwood. So species like beech trees are perfect for these guys that just sort of find their way in the undergrowth. And one of the things I love about an area like this is that it's so undisturbed. You can really see how all these species are interlinked. You can see the whole life cycles. So a fungi species like this one.
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Corruption, wealth and...
pieces of beech, cherry, elm, fir, larch, lime, mahogany, oak and walnut. The gondola makers began with a wooden template that may have been hammered into the workshop floor generations earlier.
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To save the climate, we...
I am a tree hugger. I spent much of my childhood on the great lower limb of a massive copper beech, alternately reading and looking up at the sky through its branches.
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Discovering Wildlife in...
So they like to grow on broad leaf deadwood. So species like beech trees are perfect for these guys that just sort of find their way in the undergrowth. And one of the things I love about an area like this is that it's so undisturbed. You can really see how all these species are interlinked. You can see the whole life cycles. So a fungi species like this one.
Video examples
Corruption, wealth and...
pieces of beech, cherry, elm, fir, larch, lime, mahogany, oak and walnut. The gondola makers began with a wooden template that may have been hammered into the workshop floor generations earlier.
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To save the climate, we...
I am a tree hugger. I spent much of my childhood on the great lower limb of a massive copper beech, alternately reading and looking up at the sky through its branches.
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Quote examples
Jane Goodall
English Scientist
The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.
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Gustav Klimt
Austrian Artist
If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock.
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Alexander Armstrong
English Actor
I'm the youngest of three children. We lived beside a big beech wood, on the edge of the moors, in Northumberland, which was enormously good fun.
Quote examples
Jane Goodall
English Scientist
The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.
Quote examples
Gustav Klimt
Austrian Artist
If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock.
Quote examples
Alexander Armstrong
English Actor
I'm the youngest of three children. We lived beside a big beech wood, on the edge of the moors, in Northumberland, which was enormously good fun.
Example 1 of 3
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