genus fagus

1. Beeches (synset 112281110)
   is a type of: hamamelid dicot genus - genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins
   member holonym:

   • 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
   • common beech, european beech, fagus sylvatica - large European beech with minutely-toothed leaves; widely planted as an ornamental in North America
   • copper beech, fagus purpurea, fagus sylvatica atropunicea, fagus sylvatica purpurea, purple beech - variety of European beech with shining purple or copper-colored leaves
   • american beech, fagus americana, fagus grandifolia, red beech, white beech - North American forest tree with light green leaves and edible nuts
   • fagus pendula, fagus sylvatica pendula, weeping beech - variety of European beech with pendulous limbs
   • japanese beech - a beech native to Japan having soft light yellowish-brown wood
   belongs to: beech family, fagaceae, family fagaceae - chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs: beeches; chestnuts; oaks; genera Castanea, Castanopsis, Chrysolepis, Fagus, Lithocarpus, Nothofagus, Quercus
   same as: fagus

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