birch
/bɝt͡ʃ/ noun B2- Any of various trees of the genus Betula, native to countries in the Northern Hemisphere.
- A hard wood taken from the birch tree, typically used to make furniture.
- A stick, rod or bundle of twigs made from birch wood, used for punishment.
- A birch-bark canoe.
Plural birches
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But Diana named the Birch Path.
She wanted to, so I let her; but I’m sure I could have found something more poetical than plain Birch Path.
But the Birch Path is one of the prettiest places in the world, Marilla.”
Its windows looked east and west; through the west one, looking out on the back yard, came a flood of mellow June sunlight; but the east one, whence you got a glimpse of the bloom white cherry-trees in the left orchard and nodding, slender birches down in the hollow by the brook, was greened over by a tangle of vines.
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