beech 
beech (bēc̸h)
adjective
designating a family (Fagaceae, order Fagales) of dicotyledonous trees, including the oaks and chestnuts
Etymology: ME beche < OE boece, bece: see book
noun
- any of a genus (Fagus) of trees of the beech family, with smooth, gray bark, hard wood, dark-green leaves, and edible three-cornered nuts
- the wood of the trees of this genus
Converse of subject
- dominate: The reserve's woodland is predominantly oak - many of which are magnificent old pollards - with some areas dominated by beech.
Converse of object
- spring: From £ 79.99 Guest Folding Bed Single Metal folding guest bed with a beech sprung, slatted base.
- plant: The predominant tree is oak, many arising from coppice shoots from an earlier woodland, and there are some planted beech.
- include: Others include beech, ash, birch, heather and peat.
- have: The worktops have a beech or black granite finish.
- use: I use beech from the Chilterns that is known as spalted beech.
Adjective modifier
- Lowland: Current Status Biological status Lowland beech and yew woodland spans a variety of distinctive vegetation types reflecting differences in soil and topographical conditions.
- lowland: Calcareous beech and yew woodland forms perhaps 40 % of the total amount of lowland beech and yew habitat type defined above.
- mature: Stands of Scots Pine and mature beech, together with mature hedgerow trees create a strong sense of enclosure.
- southern: Thorn forests, virgin rainforests, flowering cacti, extensive forests of monkey-puzzle trees and southern beech are also protected.
- solid: Wooden Frames: Wooden frames are usually made from solid beech.
- tall: Both species seemed to favor the very tops of tall beeches.
Modifies a noun
- slat: The Universal frame is fitted with sprung beech slats for extra comfort.
- worktops: The kitchen is tiled between the kitchen units and beech worktops and benefits from a ceramic tiled floor.
- worktop: ABOVE: Halved lemons create a still life on the beech worktop.
- hedge: The area has been enclosed with a beech hedge, which allows more privacy for bereaved people to spend a few moments in thought.
- wood: A beech wood can extract nearly five tons of dust per hectare per year.
- laminate: Views across the open fields, ceiling light, beech effect laminate flooring.
Noun used with modifier
Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader browner shade; Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech O'er-canopies the glade, Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think.
The sailing pine, the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The builder oak, sole king of forests all, The aspen good for staves, the cypress funeral. The laurel, meed of mighty conquerors And poets sage, the fir that weepeth still, The willow worn of forlorn paramours, The ewe obedient to the benders will, The birch for shafts, the sallow for the mill, The myrrh sweet bleeding in the bitter wound, The warlike beech, the ash for nothing ill, The fruitful olive, and the platan round, The carver holme, the maple seldom inward sound.
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