genus Fagus

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genus Fagus - beeches Fagushamamelid dicot genus - genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkinsbeech family, Fagaceae, family Fagaceae - chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs: beeches; chestnuts; oaks; genera Castanea, Castanopsis, Chrysolepis, Fagus, Lithocarpus, Nothofagus, Quercusbeech, beech tree - 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 regionscommon beech, European beech, Fagus sylvatica - large European beech with minutely-toothed leaves; widely planted as an ornamental in North Americacopper beech, Fagus purpurea, Fagus sylvatica atropunicea, Fagus sylvatica purpurea, purple beech - variety of European beech with shining purple or copper-colored leavesAmerican beech, Fagus americana, Fagus grandifolia, red beech, white beech - North American forest tree with light green leaves and edible nutsFagus pendula, Fagus sylvatica pendula, weeping beech - variety of European beech with pendulous limbsJapanese beech - a beech native to Japan having soft light yellowish-brown wood