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birch

გამოთქმა: /bəːtʃ/

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  • 1 (also birch tree) a slender hardy tree which has thin peeling bark and bears catkins. Birch trees grow chiefly in northern temperate regions and yield hard, pale, fine-grained timber.
    • Genus Betula, family Betulaceae: many species, including the silver birch (B. pendula) of Europe
  • (also birchwood) [mass noun] the hard fine-grained pale wood of birch trees.
  • Genus Betula, family Betulaceae: many species, including the silver birch (B. pendula) of Europe
  • 2 (the birch) chiefly historical a formal punishment in which a person is flogged with a bundle of birch twigs: there were calls to bring back the birch

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  • beat (someone) with a bundle of birch twigs as a formal punishment: the school would attempt to birch them into submission

birchen

adjective ( archaic)

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