birch [ bə:tʃ ]

• n.
  • hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood
  • any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark

    同义词：birch tree

  • 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"

    同义词：birch rod

• v. whip with a birch twig
• adj. consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree

  同义词：birchenbirken