hard beech

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   tall New Zealand tree yielding very hard wood

   SynonymsNothofagus truncata

   Broadersouthern beech

   Part ofNothofagus

Questions about hard beech

What does hard beech mean?

hard beech means "tall New Zealand tree yielding very hard wood".

What is another word for hard beech?

Close synonyms include Nothofagus truncata. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hard beech a common word?

hard beech is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.