fagus

IPA: fˈægʌs

Root Word: Fagus

Examples of "fagus" in Sentences

Glint and gleam of fagus gold adown the torrents track.
The barangan (a species of fagus) resembles the chestnut.
There is, perhaps, some uncertainty as to the exact import of the word _fagus_.
England was anciently remarkable for its forests, but Caesar says it wanted the fagus and the abies.
It is a great tree, a beech [fagus], from which comes the may [unde venit mayum, gallice _le beau may_].
The modern French for beech is hêtre, Du. heester, but Lat. fagus has given a great many dialect forms which have supplied us with the surnames Fay, Foy, and the plural dim.
We find Lilburne latinized as de insula tontis, as though it were the impossible hybrid de l'isle burn, and Beautoy sometimes as de bella fide, whereas foy is the Old French for beech, from Lat. fagus.
There can be no doubt that fagus means the beech, which, as the remains in the Danish peat-mosses show, is a tree of late introduction into Denmark, where it succeeded the fir, a tree not now native to that country.