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1[countable, uncountable] (also beech tree) a tall forest tree with smooth gray bark, shiny leaves, and small nuts forests planted with beech The great beeches towered up toward the sky. see copper beech
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- 2(also beechwood ) [uncountable] the wood of the beech tree
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