Overview of noun birch

The noun birch has 3 senses

• birch -- (hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood)


• birch, birch tree -- (any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark)


• birch, birch rod -- (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")

Overview of verb birch

The verb birch has 1 sense

• birch -- (whip with a birch twig)

Overview of adj birch

The adj birch has 1 sense

• birch, birchen, birken -- (consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree)