copper beech

noun

: a beech with shining coppery-red leaves that is a widely planted cultivar of a beech (Fagus sylvatica) native to Europe

Examples of copper beech in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The new owners will surely want to picnic beneath the property’s magnificent copper beech tree, its branches spread in a wide embrace. —Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 14 Nov. 2024

On one of these lakes, at the end of a sandy path and behind a dense wall of pine, copper beech, and oak trees, a certain Dr. Funk built his small thatched cottage. —Fiona Bornhöft, Architectural Digest, 23 Sep. 2024

The copper beech will get a proper farewell: an hourlong ceremony Friday morning with tributes from Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olzewski Jr., County Councilman David Marks, County Chief Sustainability Officer Steven Lafferty and cemetery officers. —Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 6 Nov. 2020

The Queen's Green Canopy began in the fall of 2021, when Charles and his mother paired up at Balmoral in Scotland, to plant a copper beech tree. —Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 2 Apr. 2023

But Friday at the Balmoral estate in Scotland, a special planting took place as the Queen, 95, and Charles, 72, marked the start of the official planting season in the U.K. by laying down new roots for a copper beech tree heralding the Queen's upcoming Platinum Jubilee. —Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 1 Oct. 2021

An old copper beech tree in a NewBridge courtyard served as her inspiration. —Steve Maas, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2022

To create hedges, Ms. Johnsen suggests using traditional privet and arborvitaes combined with trees such as the deer-resistant copper beech, which can grow into a type of vegetative screening. —Hannah Selinger, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2020

Phillips said that copper beech trees are not that common and most of the wood used by his firm is oak, ash and walnut. —Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 6 Nov. 2020

Word History

First Known Use

1846, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for copper beech

• microfiche
• overreach
• taoiseach
• beach
• bleach
• breach
• breech
• each
• keech
• leach
• leech
• meech