名詞 beech:

1. any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions
   同義詞：beech tree
2. wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles
   同義詞：beechwood

1. The committee for the class picnic party made careful plans for a beech party but they reckoned without a sudden change in the weather.
   班級野餐委員會精心計劃了海灘交誼會，但是他們沒有料到天氣的突然變化。
2. There are many beeches in this wood.
   這片樹林里有許多山毛櫸。

beech

n.（名詞）

A deciduous tree of the genusFagus having smooth, gray bark, alternate, simple leaves, and three-angled nuts enclosed in prickly burs. The best-known species are F. grandifolia of eastern North America and the European species F. sylvatica and its numerous cultivated forms.
山毛櫸：一種山毛櫸 屬落葉樹，有光滑、灰色的樹皮，單葉互生和被帶刺的殼包著的三角形堅果。最著名的種類是北美東部的 大山毛櫸 和歐洲的 林山毛櫸 及其大量的培育品種
The wood of any of these trees, used for flooring, containers, plywood, and tool handles.
山毛櫸木：這些樹的任一種木材，用于地板、容器、膠合板及木具的木柄中
Any of several other woody plants, as in the generaCarpinus and Nothofagus.
水青岡：一種其他木本植物，如鵝耳櫪屬 和 假山毛櫸屬

來源：
Middle English beche
中古英語 beche
from Old English bôce * see bh3go-
源自 古英語 bôce *參見 bh3go-