birch

Related topics: Plants

birch /bɜːtʃ $ bɜːrtʃ/ noun

1. [countableC, uncountableU]HBP a tree with smooth bark (=outer covering) and thin branches, or the wood from this tree 桦树；桦木

2. the birch British EnglishBrEPUNISH the practice of hitting people with birch sticks as an official punishment 用桦条笞打，鞭笞

→ silver birch

Examples from the Corpus

birch• All I remember is the wrenching loss as l watched the last birch disappear. l have relived it again and again.• Clare could see more rusty chain around the slender, peeling, silver trunk of a nearby birch tree.• An imperceptible breeze forced the leaves of a regiment of birch trees into anxious quaking.• I wish to heavens I was still allowed to use the birch and belt as I did in the good old days!• The birch leaves were delicately pale, almost lemon-colored.• These barn sills enclose thick white birch, ash, and maple trees.• I walked through hardwood forest of very thick sugar maples and yellow birches.• Dark pines and yellow birches lay ahead, as the shoreline curved to meet me.

Origin birch

Old English birce, beorc

词汇	birch
释义	birch Related topics: Plants birch /bɜːtʃ $ bɜːrtʃ/ noun 1. [countableC, uncountableU]HBP a tree with smooth bark (=outer covering) and thin branches, or the wood from this tree 桦树；桦木 2. the birch British EnglishBrEPUNISH the practice of hitting people with birch sticks as an official punishment 用桦条笞打，鞭笞 → silver birch Examples from the Corpus birch• All I remember is the wrenching loss as l watched the last birch disappear. l have relived it again and again.• Clare could see more rusty chain around the slender, peeling, silver trunk of a nearby birch tree.• An imperceptible breeze forced the leaves of a regiment of birch trees into anxious quaking.• I wish to heavens I was still allowed to use the birch and belt as I did in the good old days!• The birch leaves were delicately pale, almost lemon-colored.• These barn sills enclose thick white birch, ash, and maple trees.• I walked through hardwood forest of very thick sugar maples and yellow birches.• Dark pines and yellow birches lay ahead, as the shoreline curved to meet me. Origin birch Old English birce, beorc
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