Definition of Fagus

1. Noun. Beeches.


Definition of Fagus

1. Proper noun. the Celtic god of beech trees ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fagus

Faded Giant
Faded Giants
Faden suture
Faeroe Islands
Faeroes
Faeroese
Fafnir
Fagaceae
Fagales
Fagatogo
Faget's sign
Fagin
Fagopyrum
Fagopyrum esculentum
Fagus
Fagus americana
Fagus grandifolia
Fagus pendula
Fagus purpurea
Fagus sylvatica
Fagus sylvatica atropunicea
Fagus sylvatica pendula
Fagus sylvatica purpurea
Fahd
Fahd ibn Abdel Aziz al-Saud
Faheem
Fahr's disease
Fahraeus-Lindqvist effect
Fahrenheit

Literary usage of Fagus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Principal Species of Wood: Their Characteristic Properties by Charles Henry Snow (1908)
"Beech is well known on the eastern continent. The common beech (fagus ... fagus is from phago, to eat, and refers to the nut. The name Ironwood has been ..."

2. Handbook of Practical Botany for the Botanical Laboratory and Private Student by Eduard Strasburger, William Hillhouse (1900)
"Leaf of fagus sylvatica.—As a second object for study we select the leaf of the ... Cross-section through the leaf of fagus sylvatica. ep, epidermis; pi. ..."

3. A Manual of Dangerous Insects Likely to be Introduced in the United States by United States Bureau of Entomology (1918)
"... assimilis Maskell; New Zealand; attacks fagus menziesii and F. fusca. ... pulchellus Maskell; New Zealand; fagus fusca, F. menziesii, ..."

4. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London by Linnean Society of London (1800)
"XXIII. dn Account of a remarkable Variety of the "Beech, fagus Syha- tica. ... growing wild in * fagus ..."

5. Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and by William Darlington (1837)
"fagus. L. Л'и«. Сея. 753. [Latin,—originally from the Greek ... WOOD fagus. Vulgo—Beech tree. White Beech. Stem 30 to 50 or GO feel high, and 1 lo near 2 ..."

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