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| Shopping | The largest selection of BIRCH products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| Sounds | ber'ch |
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| Rhymes | Christchurch, church, lurch, and 4 more rhymes in erch... |
| Meaning | Consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree. |
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| Synonyms | birchen, birken |
| Similar to | woody |
| Meaning | Hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees. Used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood. |
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| Substance of | birch, birch tree |
| Broader | wood |
| Meaning | Any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark. |
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| Synonyms | birch tree |
| Member of | Betula, genus Betula |
| Substances | birch |
| Broader | tree |
| Narrower | yellow birch, Betula alleghaniensis, Betula leutea; American white birch, paper birch, paperbark birch, canoe birch, Betula cordifolia, Betula papyrifera; grey birch, gray birch, American grey birch, American gray birch, Betula populifolia; silver birch, common birch, European white birch, Betula pendula; downy birch, white birch, Betula pubescens; black birch, river birch, red birch, Betula nigra; sweet birch, cherry birch, black birch, Betula lenta; Yukon white birch, Betula neoalaskana; swamp birch, water birch, mountain birch, Western paper birch, Western birch, Betula fontinalis; Newfoundland dwarf birch, American dwarf birch, Betula glandulosa |
| Meaning | A switch consisting of a twig or a bundle of twigs from a birch tree. Used to hit people as punishment. |
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| Examples | "my father never spared the birch" |
| Synonyms | birch rod |
| Broader | switch |
| Verbs | birch |
| Meaning | Whip with a birch twig. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
| Model | They want to birch the prisoners |
| Broader | flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce |
| Nouns | birch |
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