The committee for the class picnic party made careful plans for a beech party but they reckoned without a sudden change in the weather. 班级野餐委员会精心计划了海滩交谊会,但是他们没有料到天气的突然变化。
New Zealand beech with usually pale silvery bark. 新西兰的假山毛榉属的一种植物,通常有银白色树皮。
beech
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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
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wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles
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Beech \Beech\, n.; pl. {Beeches}. [OE. beche, AS. b?ce; akin to D. beuk, OHG. buocha, G. buche, Icel. beyki, Dan. b["o]g, Sw. bok, Russ. buk, L. fagus, Gr. ? oak, ? to eat, Skr. bhaksh; the tree being named originally from the esculent fruit. See {Book}, and cf. 7th {Buck}, {Buckwheat}.] (Bot.) A tree of the genus {Fagus}.
Note: It grows to a large size, having a smooth bark and thick foliage, and bears an edible triangular nut, of which swine are fond. The {Fagus sylvatica} is the European species, and the {Fagus ferruginea} that of America.
{Beech drops} (Bot.), a parasitic plant which grows on the roots of beeches ({Epiphegus Americana}).
{Beech marten} (Zo["o]l.), the stone marten of Europe ({Mustela foina}).
{Beech mast}, the nuts of the beech, esp. as they lie under the trees, in autumn.
{Beech oil}, oil expressed from the mast or nuts of the beech tree.
{Cooper beech}, a variety of the European beech with copper-colored, shining leaves.
It has successfully preserved 16-foot oak trees and has been shown effective on a number of tree varieties, such as eucalyptus and beech, which have been difficult to maintain indoors.
The cypress oak is called Quercus robur fastigiata, and is as narrow as the Dawyck beech when young. It is always upright but widens with age; my 30-year-old specimen has a spread of about 24 ft at 10 ft above ground level.