beechmast
beechnut

Beechmast is the preferred food when it can be found.

Beechmast has also traditionally been fed to pigs.

This year has been a successful breeding season due to abundant acorns, beechmast and sweet chestnut.

"The beechmast sounds like rain."

The fallen beechmast was cool and slippery under me, but a good many leaves still clung, yellowed and curling, to the tree above.

The nuts are edible, though bitter (though not nearly as bitter as acorns) with a high tannin content, and are called beechnuts or beechmast.

Pigs had to be kept near to the farmstead, probably in nearby closes, but they could be taken to wastes and pasture and, of course, woodland, where traditionally they ate acorns and beechmast.

The highest rates of stoat predation occur after seasonal gluts in southern beechmast seeds, which encourage the reproduction of rodents on which stoats also feed, thus encouraging stoats to increase their own numbers.

I've seen him picking up beechnuts in the fall.

Not to mention three deer in the woods, eating beechnuts.

To the beechnuts has come a small gray animal.

Out of the woods in measured tread over beechnuts from the year before.

The beechnuts were delivered to a central place where they were processed for their oil.

"I like acorns and beechnuts and certain kinds of seeds."

The oil shortage was mitigated somewhat by organized gathering of beechnuts.

Berries and beechnuts the size of sunflower seeds were all very well, but they weren't enough.

She recalled that beechnuts were hard to crack.

Sister Agnes's recipe calls for beechnuts, but you've put acorns and hazelnuts in.

Where did those beechnuts I shelled go to?"

Fetch me some rosemary, thyme, beechnuts and honey, quickly.

Acorns, beechnuts and hickory nuts are staples of the turkey diet.

In the latter case, they were often accompanied by grilled chestnuts, chick peas, and beechnuts.

The forest floor was littered with beechnuts.

As collecting beechnuts is time-consuming work, use of the oil dropped sharply when mass-produced oils became more available again.

At summer's end we drove the swine into the forests to feed on the fallen beechnuts and acorns.

She set off downstream again, hulling and munching a few beechnuts as she went.

They also eat berries, fruit, and nuts (like acorns and beechnuts).

Chipmunks are storing beechnuts and acorns on the granite rocks that wall the refuge.

She ate all but the last two or three beechnuts, almost gagging up the last one she attempted.

Her pack now held two double-handfuls each of acorns and beechnuts, still sound, and a few mushrooms.

Its name comes from the Dutch word boecweit, which means beech wheat, because the seeds look like beechnuts.

The beechnuts sit in a thin spiny husk and are less than 5 cm in diameter.

In the fall, winter, and spring, it mainly ate beechnuts, acorns, and chestnuts.