purple beech

American  

noun

1. copper beech.

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Etymology

Origin of purple beech

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

Take the following:—   Like a purple beech among the greens   Looks out of place.

From The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Collins, John Churton

Others have been found untrue to a relatively high degree, as is notorious in the case of the purple beech.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de

It might have been some comfort to him to know that in the remote spot of his own choosing, a stone bench under a purple beech, Eddie was simply going from bad to worse.

From The Beauty and the Bolshevist by Miller, Alice Duer

A second native locality of the purple beech is found in a forest near Sondershausen in Thuringen, Germany, where a fine group of these trees is to be seen.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de

The purple beech is now exceedingly common in cultivation.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de