| Noun | 1. | evergreen beech - any of various beeches of the southern hemisphere having small usually evergreen leaves genus Nothofagus, Nothofagus - beeches of temperate southern hemisphere except Africa: southern beech myrtle beech, Nothofagus cuninghamii - large evergreen tree of Tasmania Coigue, Nothofagus dombeyi - Chilean evergreen whose leafy boughs are used for thatching New Zealand beech - any of several tall New Zealand trees of the genus Nothofagus; some yield useful timber Nothofagus obliqua, roble beech - tall deciduous South American tree Nothofagus procera, rauli beech - large Chilean timber tree yielding coarse lumber black beech, Nothofagus solanderi - New Zealand forest tree hard beech, Nothofagus truncata - tall New Zealand tree yielding very hard wood tree - a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms |