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# beech

«beech» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large tree with smooth grey bark and shiny oval leaves…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a beech, beeches; beech — the wood, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A beech is a large tree with smooth grey bark and shiny oval leaves, found in Europe and North America. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beech/#m1)

2) Beech is also the hard, pale wood of this tree, used to make furniture and toys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beech/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons on trees and seasons, beech is easy to recognise by its smooth grey bark; its small three-sided nuts (beechnuts or beech mast) are eaten by squirrels, mice and birds; young beech hedges keep their brown leaves all winter. In design and technology, beech wood is used for spoons, chopping boards and toys. Phrases: «beech tree», «beech wood/beechwood», «beech hedge», «beechnut».

### examples

- A huge beech tree grows in the park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beech/#x1)
- The beech has smooth grey bark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beech/#x2)
- Squirrels collect beechnuts in autumn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beech/#x3)
- Our wooden spoon is made of beech. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beech/#x4)
- The beech hedge keeps its brown leaves in winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beech/#x5)
- Bluebells grow in the beech woods in spring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beech/#x6)
- The nightingale sings among the finely-fringed beech-leaves, looking at the blooming apple trees of the garden, and thinking that they bear roses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beech/#x7)

### note

Homophone trap: «beech» (the tree) and «beach» (sand by the sea) sound the same. Memory trick: a beech has two «e»s like a tree. Plural: «beeches».

### In the corpora

- [At last a feeble voice answers from an old beech tree: «Ratty!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/35-willows-ch3-part3-snow-in-the-wild-wood/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «beech» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beech/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.