southern beech

southern beech

n.

Any of various evergreen or deciduous trees of the genus Nothofagus of South America and Australasia, having alternate leaves and small nut-bearing fruits.

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[From the fact that native ranges of the trees are confined to the Southern Hemisphere or perhaps translation of New Latin Nothofāgus, genus name (from Greek nothos, bastard, false + Latin fāgus, beech), taken as if from Greek notos, south wind, south + Latin fāgus.]

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southern beech - any of various beeches of the southern hemisphere having small usually evergreen leaves evergreen beech 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

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