weeping beech

1. 1.

   variety of European beech with pendulous limbs

   SynonymsFagus pendulaFagus sylvatica pendula

   Broaderbeech

   Part ofFagus

Questions about weeping beech

What does weeping beech mean?

weeping beech means "variety of European beech with pendulous limbs".

What is another word for weeping beech?

Close synonyms include Fagus pendula, Fagus sylvatica pendula. 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 weeping beech a common word?

weeping 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.