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Definition: Beech |
BeechNoun1. Any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth gray bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions. 2. Wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "beech" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Etymology: Beech \Beech\, noun; plural Beeches. [Old English beche, Anglo-Saxon; akin to Dutch beuk, Old High German buocha, German buche, Icelandic beyki, Danish b["o]g, Swedish bok, Russian buk, Latin fagus, Greek oak, to eat, Sanskrit bhaksh; the tree being named originally from the esculent fruit. See Book, and . (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Beeches are trees of the Genus Fagus, including about ten species in Europe, Asia, and North America. The leaves are entire and sparsely-toothed. The fruit is a small, sharply-angled nut, borne in pairs in spiny husks. The beech most commonly grown as an ornamental or shade tree is the European beech, Fagus sylvatica.
Beech Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Fagales Family: Fagaceae Genus: Fagus Species Fagus crenata - Japanese white beech
Fagus engleriana - Chinese beech
Fagus grandifolia - American beech
Fagus japonica - Japanese black beech
Fagus mexicana - Mexican beech or haya
Fagus orientalis - oriental beech
Fagus sieboldii - beech
Fagus sylvatica - European beech
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Beech Aircraft Corporation is an American company. It was founded in 1932 by Walter H. and Olive Ann Beech.On February 8, 1980, Beech Aircraft Corporation became a subsidiary of Raytheon Company, a diversified electronics and technology company located in Lexington, Massachusetts. Raytheon Aircraft continues the Beech tradition by manufacturing a line of Beech aircraft including the King Air and Bonanza.
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In Continental Brythonic mythology, and especially in Gaul and the Pyrenees, Fagus was a god of beech trees.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fagus."
Synonyms: BeechSynonyms: beech tree (n), beechwood (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: beeches (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Beech Is Back (2001) Oonch Neech Beech (1989) Tere Mere Beech Mein (1984) | |
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Books | |
High Tech |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Beech T-34C Turbo Mentor. Credit: NASA. |  | Keene, N.H., from Beech Hill. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Beech Street, Manchester, N.H. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mackenzie unit on Beech Street of Mariemont Housing Community, outside Cincinnati, Ohio. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | San Diego from 7th & Beech Sts. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Sunny bark" by MICHAEL HOMBURG CLAN.DREI Commentary: "Bark of a beech in a german forest." | "Water bike" by Igor Beres Commentary: "Fun bike on the beech." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Virgil | I who once played shepherd's songs and in my brash youth sang of you, O Tityrus, beneath the spreading beech. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | There was near by a beech tree of great height, worthy of Tityrus and Boulatruelle |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Junckers, a Danish firm also is a major foreign supplier for solid floor boards and it recently has introduced beech solid floor boards into the local market. (references) | |
Economic History | Spain | U.S. price gaps make European beech very competitive in furniture applications. (references) |
Spain | Competition comes from European beech and oak as well as from tropical hardwoods. (references) | |
Seychelles | The aircraft inventory includes one Caravan F-460, one Defender, and one Beech 1900. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Beech" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 89.53% of the time. "Beech" is used about 430 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 89.53% | 385 | 14,324 |
| Noun (proper) | 10.47% | 45 | 50,900 |
| Total | 100.00% | 430 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "beech" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Beech | Last name | 1,000 | 7,777 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "beech": american beech ♦ beech Bluff ♦ beech Bottom ♦ beech Creek ♦ Beech drops ♦ beech family ♦ beech fern ♦ beech Grove ♦ beech Island ♦ beech marten ♦ beech mast ♦ beech Mountain ♦ beech nut ♦ Beech oil ♦ beech tree ♦ beech wood ♦ beech woods ♦ black beech ♦ blue beech ♦ broad beech fern ♦ common beech ♦ Cooper beech ♦ copper beech ♦ european beech ♦ evergreen beech ♦ hard beech ♦ indian beech ♦ japanese beech ♦ long beech fern ♦ myrtle beech ♦ narrow beech fern ♦ native beech ♦ northern beech fern ♦ purple beech ♦ rauli beech ♦ red beech ♦ roble beech ♦ silver beech ♦ southern beech ♦ southern beech fern ♦ water beech ♦ weeping beech ♦ white beech. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "beech": beech-buds, beech-effect, beech-forest, beech-fringed, beech-husks, beech-laminated, beech-like, beech-mast, beech-rimmed, beech-tree, beech-wood. | |
Ending with "beech": copper-beech, Dess-beech, Minshull-beech. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
beech street | 228 | beech copper tree | 33 |
agriculture beech nut | 185 | beech 18 | 32 |
beech | 168 | copper beech | 32 |
beech tree | 139 | beech 1900 | 28 |
beech nut | 125 | beech colored tree tri | 26 |
beech aircraft | 103 | beech part | 26 |
beech company list nut | 99 | beech starship | 25 |
beech mountain | 78 | beech bonanza | 24 |
beech bend | 77 | beech bend raceway | 21 |
beech importer nut | 74 | beech coupon nut | 20 |
beech bend park | 55 | beech nut seller | 20 |
beech nc ski | 54 | beech baron | 19 |
beech color tri | 46 | beech ridge motor speedway | 19 |
beech grove indiana | 46 | beech interior part | 18 |
beech mountain north carolina | 42 | beech network street | 18 |
beech corporation street | 40 | american beech | 18 |
beech color tree tri | 40 | beech street.com | 17 |
baby beech food nut | 36 | beech colored tri | 17 |
beech tricolor | 34 | beech tree tricolor | 16 |
beech insurance street | 33 | beech ridge speedway | 16 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "beech"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | beuk. (various references) | |
Albanian | ah. (various references) | |
Arabic | مران نبات وخشب, زان (fornicator), خشب الزان. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | бук. (various references) | |
Catalan | faig. (various references) | |
Chinese | 櫸木 , 山毛榉 (Beeches). (various references) | |
Cornish | fawen (beech tree). (various references) | |
Czech | buk. (various references) | |
Danish | bøg (common beech, copper beech, European beech). (various references) | |
Dutch | beuk (bay, beechtree, common beech, copper beech, European beech). (various references) | |
Esperanto | fago. (various references) | |
Faeroese | bókartræ, bók (book). (various references) | |
Farsi | ممرز, زان , الش , راش . (various references) | |
Finnish | pyökki (common beech, copper beech, European beech). (various references) | |
French | hêtre (common beech, copper beech, European beech). (various references) | |
Frisian | boekebeam, boek (book). (various references) | |
German | Buche (beech tree). (various references) | |
Greek | φηγόσ, οξύα, οξυά. (various references) | |
Hawaiian | ah. (various references) | |
Hungarian | bükkfa (beech tree), bükk. (various references) | |
Indonesian | pohon (aspen, buckeye, tree). (various references) | |
Irish | feÚ, fÚibhile. (various references) | |
Italian | faggio (beechtree, common beech, copper beech, European beech). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ぶどう酒 (aimlessly, be idle, dangle heavily, idly, Japanese beech tree, lazily, loaf, loiter, soft and flabby, stroll idly, sway to and fro, swing, to dangle, to hang around, to linger, to stroll about, to swing, wine). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぶなのき (Japanese beech tree). (various references) | |
Korean | 너도밤나무 (Beeches). (various references) | |
Manx | faaigh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eechbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | faia (beechtree, common beech, copper beech, European beech). (various references) | |
Romanian | fag, din fag, de fag. (various references) | |
Russian | бук. (various references) | |
Scottish | faidhbhile (a beech). (various references) | |
Spanish | haya (beech tree, might have). (various references) | |
Swedish | bok (beech tree, book, quire). (various references) | |
Turkish | kayın (In law), akgüren (beechen). (various references) | |
Welsh | ffawydden (beech tree). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Fagus silvatica, Fagus spp., Fagus sylvatica. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "beech": beechdrops, beechen, beeches, beechier, beechiest, beechnut, beechnuts, beechy. (additional references) | |
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"Beech" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abeche, aberech, baec, baich, Balech, bauch, beatch, bec, Becej, bech, Bechio, Becht, Becu, beec, beecher, beek, Beeko, beeth, beigh, beik, bek, Benesch, berch, Berek, Beschi, Biachu, biakh, bich, Blech, bleech, Bleeuch, boach, boeh, Boesch, Brech, Bsec, btech, Byk, Bykhov, ebec, eech, eehh, Getech, Obeche. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "beech" (pronounced bē"kh) |
| 3 | b ē" kh | beach. |
| 2 | -ē" kh | bleach, breach, breech, each, impeach, Leach, Leech, peach, preach, reach, screech, speech, teach. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-e-e-h" | |
-1 letter: eche, hebe. | |
-2 letters: bee, cee. | |
-3 letters: be, eh, he. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-e-e-h" | |
+1 letter: beechy, breech, chebec. | |
+2 letters: beached, beaches, beechen, beeches, belched, belcher, belches, benched, bencher, benches, beseech, bobeche, bouchee, chebecs, ephebic, hebetic. | |
+3 letters: beachier, bechamel, bechance, beclothe, bedrench, beechier, beechnut, belchers, benchers, berdache, bleached, bleacher, bleaches, blenched, blencher, blenches, bobeches, bouchees, breached, breacher, breaches, breeched, breeches, buckshee, chewable, debouche, seabeach, unbreech. | |
+4 letters: beachgoer, beachhead, beachiest, beachside, beachwear, bechalked, bechamels, bechanced, bechances, becharmed, beclothed, beclothes, beechiest, beechnuts, bellyache, berdaches, beseeched, beseeches, bewitched, bewitches, bleachers, blenchers, breachers, breeching, brochette, buckshees, buckteeth, butchered, chambered, checkable, cheekbone, debauched, debauchee, debaucher, debauches, debouched, debouches, herbicide, hypercube, leachable, reachable, subechoes, teachable, trebuchet. | |
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