birch
birch is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, adjective, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A tree of several species, constituting the genus Betula; as, the white or common birch (B. alba) (also called silver birch and lady birch); the dwarf birch (B. glandulosa); the paper or canoe birch (B. papyracea); the yellow birch (B. lutea); the black or cherry birch (B. lenta). Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A tree of several species, constituting the genus Betula; as, the white or common birch (B. alba) (also called silver birch and lady birch); the dwarf birch (B. glandulosa); the paper or canoe birch (B. papyracea); the yellow birch (B. lutea); the black or cherry birch (B. lenta).
- noun. The wood or timber of the birch.
- noun. A birch twig or birch twigs, used for flogging.
- noun. A birch-bark canoe.
- adjective. Of or pertaining to the birch; birchen.
- transitive verb. To whip with a birch rod or twig; to flog.
- noun. 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"
- noun. any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark
- noun. hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood
- verb. whip with a birch twig
- adjective. consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree
Synonyms
Common word forms
birched, birchen, bircher, birches, birching
Words from these letters
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