HARD BEECH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hard beech mean? 

• HARD BEECH (noun)
  The noun HARD BEECH has 1 sense:

1. tall New Zealand tree yielding very hard wood

  Familiarity information: HARD BEECH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HARD BEECH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tall New Zealand tree yielding very hard wood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

hard beech; Nothofagus truncata

Hypernyms ("hard beech" is a kind of...):

evergreen beech; southern beech (any of various beeches of the southern hemisphere having small usually evergreen leaves)

Holonyms ("hard beech" is a member of...):

genus Nothofagus; Nothofagus (beeches of temperate southern hemisphere except Africa: southern beech)