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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 1 Oct. 2021
An old copper beech tree in a NewBridge courtyard served as her inspiration.
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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.
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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.
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Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 6 Nov. 2020
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First Known Use
1846, in the meaning defined above
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“Copper beech.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/copper%20beech. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.
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