copper beech

noun

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

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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

Word History

First Known Use

1846, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of copper beech was in 1846

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“Copper beech.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/copper%20beech. Accessed 15 Mar. 2025.

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