单词 | birch |
释义 | birch (once / 850 pages) nvadj WORD FAMILY birch: birched, birches, birching USAGE EXAMPLESTwin girls born at Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women & Newborns were delivered at 11:56 p.m. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) KFMB-TV reported that the twin girls were born at Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women & Newborns. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) KFMB-TV reports the twin girls were born at Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women & Newborns. Los Angeles Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1n any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark Syn|Hypo|Hyper birch tree Betula alleghaniensis, Betula leutea, yellow birch tree of eastern North America with thin lustrous yellow or grey bark American white birch, Betula cordifolia, Betula papyrifera, canoe birch, paper birch, paperbark birchsmall American birch with peeling white bark often worked into e.g. baskets or toy canoes American gray birch, American grey birch, Betula populifolia, gray birch, grey birchmedium-sized birch of eastern North America having white or pale grey bark and valueless wood; occurs often as a second-growth forest tree Betula pendula, European white birch, common birch, silver birchEuropean birch with silvery white peeling bark and markedly drooping branches Betula pubescens, downy birch, white birchEuropean birch with dull white to pale brown bark and somewhat drooping hairy branches Betula nigra, black birch, red birch, river birchbirch of swamps and river bottoms throughout the eastern United States having reddish-brown bark Betula lenta, black birch, cherry birch, sweet birchcommon birch of the eastern United States having spicy brown bark yielding a volatile oil and hard dark wood used for furniture Betula neoalaskana, Yukon white birchAlaskan birch with white to pale brown bark Betula fontinalis, Western birch, Western paper birch, mountain birch, swamp birch, water birchbirch of western United States resembling the paper birch but having brownish bark American dwarf birch, Betula glandulosa, Newfoundland dwarf birchsmall shrub of colder parts of North America and Greenland tree a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms 2n hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood Hyper wood the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees 3n 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 Syn|Hyper birch rod switch a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment 4v whip with a birch twig Hyper flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip beat severely with a whip or rod 5adj consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree Syn birchen, birken woody made of or containing or resembling wood |
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