Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The small, three-sided nut of a beech tree.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the nuts or fruits of the beech. The nuts are triangular, and inclosed in a spiny capsule or husk.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The nut of the beech tree.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The small, triangular
nut of thebeech tree.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small sweet triangular nut of any of various beech trees
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Examples
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There is also the fact that the beechnut is the slowest growing of all the common nut trees, requiring from twenty to thirty years to come into bearing as a seedling.
Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin Carl Weschcke 1933
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Thanks to local and state governments, our tax money gets allocated to whomever beechnut sees fit.
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I was sitting in the common room in my home-dyed beechnut brown dress, my suitcase next to me, when Mother Albertina came to take me to the depot.
Half Broke Horses Jeannette Walls 1994
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Some of the girls complained about the gray uniforms we had to wear, but I liked the way they leveled out the differences between those who could afford fancy store-bought clothes and those of us, like me, who had only home-dyed beechnut brown dresses.
Half Broke Horses Jeannette Walls 1994
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I was sitting in the common room in my home-dyed beechnut brown dress, my suitcase next to me, when Mother Albertina came to take me to the depot.
Half Broke Horses Jeannette Walls 1994
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I was sitting in the common room in my home-dyed beechnut brown dress, my suitcase next to me, when Mother Albertina came to take me to the depot.
Half Broke Horses Jeannette Walls 1994
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Some of the girls complained about the gray uniforms we had to wear, but I liked the way they leveled out the differences between those who could afford fancy store-bought clothes and those of us, like me, who had only home-dyed beechnut brown dresses.
Half Broke Horses Jeannette Walls 1994
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Some of the girls complained about the gray uniforms we had to wear, but I liked the way they leveled out the differences between those who could afford fancy store-bought clothes and those of us, like me, who had only home-dyed beechnut brown dresses.
Half Broke Horses Jeannette Walls 1994
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There was a scurry of movement in the beechnut mast, then a small animal raced straight up the smooth trunk.
The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990
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He was passing the beechnut tree at a dead run-maybe literally dead-going too fast to stop.
A Spell For Chameleon Anthony, Piers 1977
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