beechnut - small sweet triangular nut of any of various beech trees

Fagus, genus Fagus - beeches

beechwood, beech - wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles

common beech, European beech, Fagus sylvatica - large European beech with minutely-toothed leaves; widely planted as an ornamental in North America

copper beech, Fagus purpurea, Fagus sylvatica atropunicea, Fagus sylvatica purpurea, purple beech - variety of European beech with shining purple or copper-colored leaves

American beech, Fagus americana, Fagus grandifolia, red beech, white beech - North American forest tree with light green leaves and edible nuts

Fagus pendula, Fagus sylvatica pendula, weeping beech - variety of European beech with pendulous limbs

Japanese beech - a beech native to Japan having soft light yellowish-brown wood

tree - a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

beech, beech tree - any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth gray bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions

wood - the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees