Usually means: Tree with distinctive peeling bark.
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  1. birch, the birch: Merriam-Webster
  2. Birch, birch, the birch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. birch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. birch, the birch: Collins English Dictionary
  5. birch: Vocabulary.com
  6. Birch, birch: Wordnik
  7. birch, the birch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Birch, birch: Wiktionary
  9. birch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. birch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. birch: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Birch, birch: Dictionary.com
  13. birch: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. birch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. BIRCH (data clustering), BIRCH, Birch (disambiguation), Birch (surname), Birch, The Birch, The birch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Birch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. birch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. birch: Rhymezone
  19. birch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. birch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Birch: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. birch: FreeDictionary.org
  23. birch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. birch: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. birch: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. birch: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Birch: Marquetry Glossary

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  2. birch: Legal dictionary

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  1. birch: Encyclopedia

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  2. birch: Medical dictionary

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Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Birch: Botanical Name listing of Plants

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  1. birch: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

(Note: See birched as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Any of various trees of the genus Betula, native to countries in the Northern Hemisphere.
noun:  A hard wood taken from the birch tree, typically used to make furniture.
noun:  A stick, rod or bundle of twigs made from birch wood, used for punishment.
noun:  A birch-bark canoe.
verb:  (transitive) To punish with a stick, bundle of twigs, or rod made of birch wood.
verb:  (transitive) To punish as though one were using a stick, bundle of twigs, or rod made of birch wood.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A nickname of the surname Birchall.
noun:  A village and civil parish in Colchester borough, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL9419).
noun:  A small village in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD8507).
noun:  A township in Beltrami County, Minnesota, United States.
noun:  An extinct town in Eureka County, Nevada, United States.
noun:  A town in Lincoln County, Wisconsin, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Sanborn, Ashland County, Wisconsin.

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