SILVER BEECH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does silver beech mean? 

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

1. New Zealand beech with usually pale silvery bark

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SILVER BEECH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

New Zealand beech with usually pale silvery bark

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Nothofagus menziesii; silver beech

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

New Zealand beech (any of several tall New Zealand trees of the genus Nothofagus; some yield useful timber)

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

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