any member of the plant family Fagaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having alternate, usually toothed or lobed leaves, male flowers in catkins and female flowers either solitary or in clusters and bearing a nut enclosed in a cupule or bur, including the beeches, chestnuts, and oaks.
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Sleep behavior has been researched in birches and oaks, and beeches can measure day length—all of this requires light receptors that transmit signals to the trees and spur the whole organism into action.
Beech-Nut is still in existence, and is the third largest baby food manufacturer in the United States.
White King Soap sponsored the show on the West Coast, and Beech-Nut Gum in the East.
With just two small, double engine Beech 18s and a handful of employees, Phoenix was born.
There were long brown mountains and a few pines and far-off forests of beech-trees on some of the mountainsides.
Somewhere over the rainbow—specifically atop Beech Mountain in western North Carolina—a yellow brick road leads straight to Oz.
It has been shown by Chevandrier, that an acre of land under beech wood accumulates annually about 1650 lb.
The emblems on his monument are a branch of beech, a winged A, a wreathed snake and a lamp.
We had no time to make a dash for the house, so we took shelter under some spreading beech trees at the edge of the woods.
There used to be a tradition that lightning never strikes a beech tree, but that was not our reason for choosing them.
In a little while the high beech-ridge over which she had been travelling ended in a narrow cedar-swamp.