birch
(bɜːʳtʃ )
Word forms: birches
1. variable noun
A birch or a birch tree is a type of tall tree with thin branches.
2. singular noun [the NOUN]
The birch is a punishment in which someone is hit with a wooden stick.
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Collocations:
birch forest birch tree
The park thus also includes areas with undisturbed birch forest in addition to the mountains.
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Inside the area was originally only a birch forest, while outside the rampart ash trees were abundant.
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The treeline, with a light birch forest, rises to about in sterdalen.
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Birch forest occupies 10% of the wooded area and aspen forest take up 2%.
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The fenced-in basins returned to a natural state, becoming home to a birch forest and grassy marsh and hosting a wide variety of flora and fauna.
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There was a little birch tree halfway up the hill which rises steeply to the southwest.
A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden (1990)
WHEN is the best time to prune a weeping silver birch tree?
The Sun (2010)
On the far side of the meadow, a snowy owl stepped out of a birch tree and sailed across the expanse of snow on a 5ft wingspan.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
She positions herself under the birch tree on the other side of that garden, facing him, but looking past him.
ON CATS (2002)
Translations:
Chinese: 桦树
Japanese: 樺
- disproportionate impact
- disproportionate influence
- disproportionately
- disproportionate number
- disproportionate power
- disproportionate reaction
- disproportionate response
- disproportionate risk
- disproportionate share
- disproportionate use of
- disprove
- disprove a claim
- disprove an idea
- disprove a theory
- disputation
- dispute
- dispute a charge
- dispute a claim
- dispute a fact
- dispute a figure
- dispute a finding
- dispute an account
- dispute an accusation
- dispute an allegation
- dispute a notion