Noun: beech
| Singular | beech |
| Plural | beeches |
Sample Sentences
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A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky. [1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like beech
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English beche, from Old English bēċe, from Proto-West Germanic *bōkijā (“beech”). Doublet of buky. Related to English book. See: Middle English Nouns '
beche', Old English Nouns '
bēċe', English Nouns '
book'.
Verbs referencing "beech"
Ancient Greek Nouns
φηγός, Danish Nouns
bøg, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
bøk.