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BIRCH

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English dictionary: Word overview

BIRCH (noun)
  The noun BIRCH has 3 senses:

1. hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood
2. any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark
3. a switch consisting of a twig or a bundle of twigs from a birch tree; used to hit people as punishment

  Familiarity information: BIRCH used as a noun is uncommon.


BIRCH (adjective)
  The adjective BIRCH has 1 sense:

1. consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree

  Familiarity information: BIRCH used as an adjective is very rare.


BIRCH (verb)
  The verb BIRCH has 1 sense:

1. whip with a birch twig

  Familiarity information: BIRCH used as a verb is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


BIRCH (noun)


Sense 1birch [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("birch" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Holonyms ("birch" is a substance of...):

birch; birch tree (any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark)


Sense 2birch [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

birch tree; birch

Hypernyms ("birch" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Meronyms (substance of "birch"):

birch (hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "birch"):

Betula nigra; black birch; red birch; river birch (birch of swamps and river bottoms throughout the eastern United States having reddish-brown bark)

Betula neoalaskana; Yukon white birch (Alaskan birch with white to pale brown bark)

Betula lenta; black birch; cherry birch; sweet birch (common birch of the eastern United States having spicy brown bark yielding a volatile oil and hard dark wood used for furniture)

American dwarf birch; Betula glandulosa; Newfoundland dwarf birch (small shrub of colder parts of North America and Greenland)

Betula pubescens; downy birch; white birch (European birch with dull white to pale brown bark and somewhat drooping hairy branches)

Betula pendula; common birch; European white birch; silver birch (European birch with silvery white peeling bark and markedly drooping branches)

American gray birch; American grey birch; Betula populifolia; gray birch; grey birch (medium-sized birch of eastern North America having white or pale grey bark and valueless wood; occurs often as a second-growth forest tree)

American white birch; Betula cordifolia; Betula papyrifera; canoe birch; paper birch; paperbark birch (small American birch with peeling white bark often worked into e.g. baskets or toy canoes)

Betula alleghaniensis; Betula leutea; yellow birch (tree of eastern North America with thin lustrous yellow or grey bark)

Betula fontinalis; mountain birch; swamp birch; water birch; Western birch; Western paper birch (birch of western United States resembling the paper birch but having brownish bark)

Holonyms ("birch" is a member of...):

Betula; genus Betula (a genus of trees of the family Betulaceae (such as birches))


Sense 3birch [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

A switch consisting of a twig or a bundle of twigs from a birch tree; used to hit people as punishment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

birch rod; birch

Context example:

my father never spared the birch

Hypernyms ("birch" is a kind of...):

switch (a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment)


BIRCH (adjective)


Sense 1birch [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree

Synonyms:

birch; birchen; birken

Similar:

woody (made of or containing or resembling wood)


BIRCH (verb)


Sense 1birch [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Whip with a birch twig

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "birch" is one way to...):

flog; lash; lather; slash; strap; trounce; welt; whip (beat severely with a whip or rod)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They want to birch the prisoners


English Proverbs
"No cows, no cares."
(English proverb)
"It is easier for the son to ask from the father than for the father to ask from the son"
(Breton proverb)
"When the fox can't reach the grape, says it's unripe."
(Armenian proverb)
"Misery enjoys company."
(Dutch proverb)


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