Plural of birch
regular plural
The plural of birch is birches.
Forms of birch
| Singular | birch /bɜːtʃ/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | birches |
| Countable | countable and uncountable |
Birches in a sentence
- The larches and birches were covered with green, the laburnums with gold.1950, C. S. Lewis, chapter 11, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Collins, published 1998. From the entry laburnum
- The surroundings become bleak in the extreme as the timber line is approached and trees give place to thinly scattered birches that are little more than bushes.1957 August, H. A. Vallance, “By Rail to the Norwegian Arctic”, in Railway Magazine, page 574. From the entry scattered
Meaning of birch
- noun Any of various trees of the genus Betula, native to countries in the Northern Hemisphere.
- noun A hard wood taken from the birch tree, typically used to make furniture.
- noun A stick, rod or bundle of twigs made from birch wood, used for punishment.
Questions about the plural of birch
- What is the plural of birch?
- The plural of birch is birches.
- Is birch countable?
- Birch is a countable and uncountable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: birch (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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