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birches

birches is the plural of birch.

birches is the third-person singular simple present indicative of birch.

Meaning of birch

Noun

birch (countable and uncountable, plural birches)

  1. Any of various trees of the genus Betula, native to countries in the Northern Hemisphere.
  2. A hard wood taken from the birch tree, typically used to make furniture.
  3. A stick, rod or bundle of twigs made from birch wood, used for punishment.
    Synonyms:
    makepeace, switch
  4. A birch-bark canoe.

See all 14 meanings of birch

Proper noun capitalized: Birches

Birches

  1. (plural) plural of Birch

Phrases with birches

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Questions about birches

What is birches the plural of?
Birches is the plural of birch.
What part of speech is birches?
Birches is a proper noun.

Words near birches in the dictionary

  1. birchen
  2. bircher
  3. Bircher muesli
  4. Bircher mueslis
  5. birchers
  6. birches
  7. Birchfield
  8. Birchfields
  9. Birchgrove
  10. birching
  11. birchings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: birches (page history and authors); Birches (page history and authors); birch (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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