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PURPLE BEECH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Variety of European beech with shining purple or copper-colored leaves
Synonyms:
copper beech; Fagus purpurea; Fagus sylvatica atropunicea; Fagus sylvatica purpurea; purple beech
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("purple beech" is a kind of...):
beech; 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 regions)
Holonyms ("purple beech" is a member of...):
Fagus; genus Fagus (beeches)
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