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birch wood

birch wood is the alternative form of birchwood.

Meaning of birchwood

Noun

birchwood (countable and uncountable, plural birchwoods)

  1. (countable) A wood largely populated with birch trees (Betula spp.).
    • Well, thought I, I had better let the dogs find the way, which I did, but when I came past some rocks down there, I saw an old witch right in front of some small birchwood with a cloth on her head, a leather jacket, and black skirt; she was leaning on a crutch-handled stick and looked like a woman...1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 79
  2. (uncountable) The wood from a birch tree.
    Synonyms:
    birch

See all 9 meanings of birchwood

Forms of birch wood

pluralbirch woods

Questions about birch wood

What is birch wood the alternative form of?
Birch wood is the alternative form of birchwood.

Words near birch wood in the dictionary

  1. birch skeletonizers
  2. birch tar
  3. birch tree
  4. birch trees
  5. Birch Vale
  6. birch wood
  7. birch woods
  8. birch-leaved bellflower
  9. Birchall
  10. Birchalls
  11. Bircham

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Adapted from Wiktionary: birch wood (page history and authors); birchwood (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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