noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a pine/beech/birch etc forest
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A narrow path led through the pine forest.
copper beech
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
copper
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Wisps of high grey cloud scarcely moved behind the copper beech .
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The heavy boughs and dark leaves of the copper beech that spread over the drive perfectly suited her mood of despair.
■ NOUN
tree
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Philip worked a flat stone out of the earth by the roots of the beech tree .
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He studies an unusual beech tree , in what he later remembers was his last happy moment.
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On top of the hill was a wood of beech trees surrounded by a stone wall.
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For a few days, the beech tree is the most wonderful living thing in the garden.
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It stood under some beech trees , between a row of cottages and a battered church.
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The owl hooted in the beech tree and, to Erika's deep delight, it was answered by another owl.
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The woods beyond the rectory garden consisted mainly of beech trees , very tall, as though sending their branches up to the light.
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The farmhouse rests on a rocky slope and is surrounded by beech trees .
wood
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Made of upright panels, they are mounted in attractive solid beech wood frames giving a beautiful surround to samples on pictures.
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Some one was shooting at the fringes of the beech woods , on the heather moor.
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The Blackdown Hills, above the Tone valley, offer walking and riding among superb beech woods .
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The entrance to the beech wood was narrow, the end of a funnel.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And beech and lime showed dieback in Richmond Park.
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By 1984, half the supply of spruce, pine, beech and oak had some degree of unnatural damage.
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Chunks of oak, ash, alder, beech , sycamore and hazel lay here and there, awaiting their miracles.
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Copses of beech and alder appeared, straggling along the banks with their roots lost in a tangle of briars and bracken.
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Dry tan beech leaves that have survived all the winter storms now rattle softly on a low branch.
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On top of the hill was a wood of beech trees surrounded by a stone wall.
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The village swine fed on the beech mast on Steep Ridgery.
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Under the high canopy of bronze beech , pale green ash and golden lime leaves the streams merge.