Definition of Japanese beech

1. Noun. A beech native to Japan having soft light yellowish-brown wood.

Group relationships: Fagus, Genus Fagus
Generic synonyms: Beech, Beech Tree

Lexicographical Neighbors of Japanese Beech

Japanese B encephalitis virus
Japanese Bobtail
Japanese Bobtails
Japanese Giant Salamanders
Japanese Islands
Japanese Red Army
Japanese Sign Language
Japanese allspice
Japanese amberjack
Japanese andromeda
Japanese angelica tree
Japanese apricot
Japanese banana
Japanese barberry
Japanese barnyard millet
Japanese beech (current term)
Japanese beetle
Japanese bittersweet
Japanese black pine
Japanese brome
Japanese bunching onion
Japanese bunching onions
Japanese capital
Japanese cedar
Japanese cherry
Japanese chess
Japanese chestnut
Japanese crab
Japanese deer

Literary usage of Japanese beech

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1920)
"The Japanese beech is not more promising than the European. Several smaller broadleaves, among which are Acanthopanax ..."

2. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"... L.), which contain from 30 to 42 pc, the yield from the whole nuts being from 10 to 12 pc The oil derived from the nuts of the Japanese beech (var. ..."

3. The Romance of Our Trees by Ernest Henry Wilson (1920)
"The other Japanese beech (F. japonica) is more rare and I have seen it only in the Nikko region where it grows mixed with Siebold's Beech and other trees at ..."

4. The Indian Forester (1905)
"The Japanese beech is largely mixed with the Hiba at the upper elevations, but its timber is only just coming into use, and it is being cut out and Hiba ..."

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