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

[ Syn: 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

[ Syn: birch rod ]

consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree

[ Syn: birchen , birken ]

whip with a birch twig