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European beech

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Noun1.European beechEuropean beech - large European beech with minutely-toothed leaves; widely planted as an ornamental in North America
common beech, Fagus sylvatica
Fagus, genus Fagus - beeches
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


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Such pithy wit helps make Dirr's manual not only an exhaustive resource, but great company on a winter evening, when snow lies on the woody landscape plants and the twenty-three cultivars of European beech seem a matter worth close consideration.
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There are trees which speak to us of loss and mourning in their very shape and posture: deodar cedar from the Himalyas, the pendulous European beech and weeping Higan cherry.
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