Lexic.us

Definition of Silver beech

1. Noun. New Zealand beech with usually pale silvery bark.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Silver Beech

Literary usage of Silver beech

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

1. Salad for the Social by Frederick Saunders (1856)
"And silver beech, the maple yellow leaved— Where Autumn, like a faint old man, flits down By the wayside aweary ..."

2. New Zealand Official Yearbook by New Zealand Dept. of Statistics (1899)
"Hooker f. ; " Forest Flora," Plate 89. Hauraki Gulf to Colac Bay, Southland. The silver-beech is the mont beautiful and attractive of all the New Zealand ..."

3. The Face of the Earth: (Das Antlitz Der Erde) by Eduard Suess (1906)
"Hagen supposes that the peat in the neighbourhood of the sea previously stood at a somewhat higher level, and was overgrown with silver beech; the weight of ..."

4. The Face of the Earth: (Das Antlitz Der Erde) by Eduard Suess (1906)
"Hagen supposes that the peat in the neighbourhood of the sea previously stood at a somewhat higher level, and was overgrown with silver beech; the weight of ..."

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