[beech-drops] 
) | a low plant, Epifagus virginiana, of the broomrape family, without green foliage, parasitic upon the roots of the beech. |
| beech·drops or beech-drops (bēch'drŏps') pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) A brownish eastern North American annual plant (Epifagus virginiana) having scalelike leaves and whitish tubular flowers with brown-purple stripes. It is parasitic on the roots of the beech tree. |