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birch::noun | Spocien Dictionary

birch
noun
/bɜrʧ/
a switch consisting of a twig or a bundle of twigs from a birch tree; used to hit people as punishment
Type Words
Synonyms birch rod
Type of switch


my father never spared the birch.

birch::adjective | Spocien Dictionary

birch
adjective
/bɜrʧ/
consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree
Type Words
Synonyms birchen, birken

birch::noun | Spocien Dictionary

birch
noun
/bɜrʧ/
any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark
Type Words
Synonyms birch tree
Type of tree
Has types american gray birch, american grey birch, american white birch, betula alleghaniensis, betula cordifolia, betula fontinalis, betula glandulosa, betula lenta, betula leutea, betula neoalaskana, betula nigra, betula papyrifera, american dwarf birch, betula populifolia, betula pubescens, betula pendula, grey birch, mountain birch, newfoundland dwarf birch, paper birch, paperbark birch, red birch, river birch, silver birch, swamp birch, sweet birch, water birch, western birch, western paper birch, white birch, yellow birch, yukon white birch, black birch, canoe birch, cherry birch, common birch, downy birch, european white birch, gray birch

birch::noun | Spocien Dictionary

birch
noun
/bɜrʧ/
hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood
Type Words
Type of wood

birch::verb | Spocien Dictionary

birch
verb
/bɜrʧ/
whip with a birch twig
Type Words
Type of welt, whip, flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, trounce

Examples of birch

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Birch and buttercups are among the plants that usually cause only mild distress.
From the nytimes.com
The most authentic massage is done with a venik or bundle of birch or oak twigs.
From the huffingtonpost.com
They are in the Sharada and Devanagari scripts, written on birch bark and paper.
From the en.wikipedia.org
I have some birch trees and a ginkgo tree that my parents FedExed me from Texas.
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Sharbaugh and Hahn followed the beeping signal to a birch tree with a broken top.
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Birch said 20 to 40 minutes had elapsed by the time the authorities were reached.
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Birch spends a few days a week at his farms-he has a cottage at the dairy farm.
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The legs are optional, and the whole thing is made of aluminum and birch plywood.
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The cherry, green olive and birch bark notes should harmonize in a year or two.
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  • Hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood
  • Consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree
  • Whip with a birch twig
  • Any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark
  • Birch is a thinleaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus Betula (/u02C8bu025Btju028Alu0259/), in the family Betulaceae, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams, and is closely related to the beech/oak family, Fagaceae. The genus Betula contains 30 to 60 known taxa of which 11 are on the IUCN 2011 Green List of Threatened Species...
  • BIRCH (balanced iterative reducing and clustering using hierarchies) is an unsupervised data mining algorithm used to perform hierarchical clustering over particularly large data-sets. ...
  • The Birch is a national undergraduate journal of Eastern European and Eurasian culture. The journal, which is run by undergraduates at Columbia University, is the first exclusively undergraduate journal of Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian studies in America. ...
  • Birching is a corporal punishment with a birch rod, typically applied to the recipient's bare buttocks, although occasionally to the back and/or shoulders.
  • (The Birches (Belgrade Lakes, Maine)) The Birches in Belgrade Lakes, Maine was built in 1916. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
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