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birchwood

birchwood noun: a wood largely populated with birch trees (Betula spp.).

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

Proper noun capitalized: Birchwood

Birchwood

  1. A civil parish in Warrington borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6491).
  2. A housing estate of Lincoln borough, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SK9369).
  3. A location in western Southland, New Zealand.
  4. An unincorporated community near Chugiak, near Anchorage, Alaska, United States.
  5. Synonym of Birchwood Village, Minnesota.
  6. A village and town in Washburn County, Wisconsin, United States.
  7. An unincorporated community in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin, United States.

Synonyms of birchwood

Forms of birchwood

pluralbirchwoods
alternative formbirch wood

Origin of birchwood

From birch + wood.

Words formed from birchwood

Questions about birchwood

What does birchwood mean?
Birchwood means a wood largely populated with birch trees (Betula spp.).
What part of speech is birchwood?
Birchwood can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of birchwood?
The plural of birchwood is birchwoods.

Words near birchwood in the dictionary

  1. Birchmeiers
  2. Birchmore
  3. birchrind
  4. Birchs
  5. Birchs Bay
  6. birchwood
  7. Birchwood Village
  8. birchwoods
  9. birchy
  10. Birchy Bay
  11. Birckbichler

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Adapted from Wiktionary: birchwood (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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