beechmast
nounUK /ˈbiːtʃˌmɑːst/ · US /ˈbit͡ʃˌmæst/
Etymology From beech + mast.
1
The mast or nuts of the beech tree.
- Gilbert White writes, "I have consulted a sportsman who tells me that […] often there are amongst them little parties of small blue doves which he calls rockiers. The food of these numberless migrants was beechmast and some acorns."1887, Edwin Lester Linden Arnold, Bird Life in England, page 182:
- Related terms
- beech, beech nut, beech tree