copper beech
- noun
- /ˈkɑːpər biːtʃ/
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haya cobre
- All over the yard he'd planted outscale copper beeches.
Examples
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In the park, there was a huge copper beech tree, and into the bark of its elephantine trunk had years ago been carved.
Fiction book (2000) -
It was surrounded by huge copper beeches whose heavy branches swept the ground.
Fiction book (1998) -
The copper beech tree in our front yard has stunning purple leaves that attract many visitors.
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On our walk in the park, we admired the large copper beech, its leaves shining in the sunlight.
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Planting a copper beech in your garden can add a beautiful touch with its unique leaves and shape.
Synonyms
A type of tree with shiny purple or copper-coloured leaves often grown in gardens
A cultivated beech tree with shiny purple or copper leaves
A type of European beech tree with shiny purple or copper leaves
A beech tree grown in gardens with shiny purple or copper leaves
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound combines the adjective/noun 'copper' (colour/metal) with 'beech' (a type of tree) to denote a beech tree with copper-coloured leaves; this is a directly compositional descriptive pattern. Such noun–noun or adjective+noun descriptions are cross-linguistically common and a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Copper beech gets its name from its shiny, copper-coloured leaves: copper describes the leaf colour and beech is the tree. So the name simply means 'a beech tree with copper-coloured leaves'.
