noun
- The nuts or seeds of beech trees, especially when they fall to the ground and are used as food for animals or harvested for other purposes.
Usage: Usually used in plural form; Collective term for beech nuts
Examples
- Pigs were traditionally fattened on beechmasts in autumn.
- The forest floor was carpeted with beechmasts after the storm.
- Beechmasts are an important food source for woodland wildlife.
- The farmer collected beechmasts to feed his livestock.
- A good beechmast year provides abundant nutrition for forest animals.