Fagus

noun

beeches

• Syn: ↑genus Fagus

• Hypernyms: ↑hamamelid dicot genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Fagaceae, ↑family Fagaceae, ↑beech family

• Member Meronyms:

↑beech, ↑beech tree, ↑common beech, ↑European beech, ↑Fagus sylvatica, ↑copper beech, ↑purple beech, ↑Fagus sylvatica atropunicea, ↑Fagus purpurea, ↑Fagus sylvatica purpurea, ↑American beech, ↑white beech, ↑red beech, ↑Fagus grandifolia, ↑Fagus americana, ↑weeping beech, ↑Fagus pendula, ↑Fagus sylvatica pendula, ↑Japanese beech

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\\ˈfāgəs\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, beech — more at beech

: a genus of trees (family Fagaceae) having the staminate flowers in small pendulous heads and the fruit sharply 3-angled — compare castanea, quercus; see beech, copper beech

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Fagus /fāˈgəs/

noun

The beech genus of trees, giving name to the family Fagāˈceae

ORIGIN: L fāgus beech; cf Gr phēgos oak, and OE bōc beech

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fagāˈceous adjective