beech

noun

• (also beech tree) a large tree with smooth grey bark, glossy leaves, and hard, pale fine-grained timber.

  • Genera Fagus (of the northern temperate zone) and Notofagus (the southern beeches, of Australasia and South America), family Fagaceae: many species
• (also beechwood) [mass noun] the hard, pale fine-grained timber of the beech: a worktop in solid beech