Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA tree of the genus Fagus having a smooth, light grey trunk, oval, pointed leaves, and many branches. · The wood of the beech tree.
From Middle English beche, from Old English bēċe, from Proto-West Germanic *bōkijā (“beech”). Doublet of buky. Related to English book.
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