<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Any deciduous tree of the genus <em>Fagus</em>, of temperate regions, having a smooth gray bark and bearing small, edible, triangular nuts. Also called beechwood.</li><li>The wood from a beech tree of the genus <em>Fagus</em>, including the commonly cultivated European beech.</li><li>Any member of the beech family (Fagaceae).</li></ul>