1. Consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree
   - birchen, birken

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
   - birch tree 
3. A switch consisting of a twig or a bundle of twigs from a birch tree; used to hit people as punishment
   "my father never spared the birch"
   - birch rod

1. Whip with a birch twig

Derived forms: birches, birched, birching

See also: woody

Type of: flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, switch, tree, trounce, welt, whip, wood

Part of: Betula, genus Betula

Encyclopedia: Birch, Carroll & Coyle Birch, Carrol and Coyle Birch Birch, Essex Birch, Wisconsin Birch, WI Birch, Glynn

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