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# birch

«birch» in Mova's school dictionary: **A tall thin tree with smooth white or silver bark that…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a birch, birches); adjective (birch)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A tall thin tree with smooth white or silver bark that peels in thin layers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/birch/#m1)

2) The wood of this tree: birch furniture. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/birch/#m2)

3) (old use) A bundle of birch twigs once used to beat people as punishment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/birch/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science and nature lessons the silver birch is easy to spot by its white bark; it grows in cool places such as Britain, Ireland, Canada and the northern USA. In history it reminds pupils of harsh punishments. Phrases: silver birch, birch bark, birch wood, birch canoe.

### examples

- The silver birch has white peeling bark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/birch/#x1)
- Native Americans made canoes from birch bark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/birch/#x2)
- We collected birch leaves for our nature table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/birch/#x3)
- The woods were full of tall birches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/birch/#x4)
- Birch wood is used for furniture and plywood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/birch/#x5)
- In old schools children were punished with the birch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/birch/#x6)
- Whenever the wind blew the Birch-tree creaked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/birch/#x7)

### note

Plural birches (add -es after ch). Do not confuse with "beech", another tree with smooth grey bark.

### In the corpora

- [Picture a town where nobody has walked for 40 years: birches grow through flats, moss covers the roads.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued/1/)
- [Taffy «sat mousy-quiet for ten whole minutes» while her Daddy scratched on birch-bark with a shark's tooth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/87-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «birch» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/birch/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.