red beech

/rɛd bitʃ/

Other forms: red beeches

Definitions of red beech

1. noun

   North American forest tree with light green leaves and edible nuts
   synonyms: American beech, Fagus americana, Fagus grandifolia, white beech

   type of:

   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; north temperate regions
2. noun

   large tree of Australasia
   synonyms: Heritiera trifoliolata, Terrietia trifoliolata, booyong, brown oak, crow's foot, silky elm, stave wood

   type of:

   angiospermous tree, flowering tree

   any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary