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• Many trees have alternate leaf arrangement (e.g. birch, oak and mulberry).From the entry alternate
• A birch twig or a cornstalk is monopodial.From the entry monopodial
• There was a fire drill this morning. We had to leave the building calmly and go to the birch tree, our meeting point.From the entry fire drill
• Outside the window, birch trees swayed in the wind and the sun dipped toward the Green Mountains.2026 June 14, Eli Saslow, Erin Schaff, “The World’s Leading Deepfake Expert No Longer Trusts His Own Eyes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry Green Mountains
• A womxn without a grove of birch whose bark may be harvested without fear of negative consequences?2018, Julie A. Gallagher, Barbara Winslow, Reshaping Women's History: Voices of Nontraditional Women Historians, University of Illinois…. From the entry womxn
• Either way, Brett went off the track and into a clump of birch trees.2014, Larry Bettag, No Rewind: Only One Shot, page 53. From the entry zig when one should zag
• Both black birch and yellow birch smell and taste like Wintergreen.1999, Robert Barkman, Science through multiple intelligences: patterns that inspire inquiry. From the entry noseworthy
• When they died, the others built fires to smoke them, and then covered them with birch bark.1995, Robert E. Nichols, Jr., Birds of Algonquin Legend, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 96. From the entry foxfire
• The birch trees are bare and white as chain lightning against the sky.1985, W. P. Kinsella, “Vows”, in The Moccasin Telegraph and Other Stories, page 129. From the entry chain lightning
• 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
• A few more farms indispersed with little birch trees gathered here and there by the mountains.1907, M. A. Wyllie, Norway and Its Fjords, page 169. From the entry indisperse
• I have also seen fallen birch logs hosting toothed jelly fungus and witch's butter, both of which are useful edible fungi.2015, Cliff Seruntine, The Wildwood Way: Spiritual Growth in the Heart of Nature, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN, page 48. From the entry toothed jelly fungus
• Almost any item can be used for this purpose: a birch twig, a whalebone, and even a hanger.2002, Michael Shermer, The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 93. From the entry dowser
• We are in a wood, walking in single file through thinnets of birch with a pale sunlight falling.1999, Indra Sinha, The Cybergypsies: A True Tale of Lust, War, and Betrayal on the Electronic Frontier. From the entry thinnet
• Although doors were jammed shut, the menk burst in with huge birch masks covered with hair made of hay.1999, Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, The Tenacity of Ethnicity: A Siberian Saga in Global Perspective. From the entry menk
• Wipe your boots with that fancy birch broom.1992, Володи́мир Андрі́йович Бо́гдан [Vladimir A. Bohdan], “Playing Cards” (chapter 2, pages 7–13), in Avoiding Extinction: Children of…. From the entry silrada
• On three sides the fields fell down to the Sprint, whose numerous waterbreaks gleamed whitely through fringing birch and coppice.1967, John Nichols, The Gentleman's Magazine - Volumes 292-293, page 504. From the entry waterbreak
• In the frost-stunted birch forests on the Siberian border, sturdy, windburned mountain men trap beaver and pan for gold.1963, Loren Fessler, The Editors of LIFE, “An Immense and Crowded Land”, in China (LIFE World Library), New York: Time Incorporated…. From the entry mountain man
• A moosecall is a horn of birch bark used by hunters to imitate the roar and bellow of the bull moose.1948, George W. Stimpson, Information Roundup, page 408. From the entry moosecall
• The lissom birch thrives ungarnered in the thicket, where grace and gentleness supply the whilom vigor of its sway.1913, John H. Stapleton, Explanation of Catholic Morals. From the entry ungarnered
• Last summer we spit-roasted a baby lamb (slaughtered the day before) over a birch fire at our camp in the Rangeley Lake region of Maine.2010, Mariana de Saint Phalle, “Letter #5: Late Summer, 1984”, in Mimi Allen, editor, Mariana’s Letters: Writings & Recipes, [Bloomington…. From the entry spit-roast
• Most of the forests are pine, and deciduous trees (oaks, beech, birch, ash) are practically confined to the pluviose zone of the north and northwest.1993, William A. Dill, Inland Fisheries of Europe, page 154. From the entry pluviose
• There was a single birch tree that overtopped the other trees on the island, and was now picked out against the moon-drenched sky.1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber, published 2005, page 79. From the entry overtop
• Coming suddenly round a corner into a glade of silver birch trees Edmund saw the ground covered in all directions with little yellow flowers—celandines.1950, C. S. Lewis, chapter 11, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Collins, published 1998. From the entry celandine
• In midmost of the stream, embraced in the weir's shimmering arm-spread, a small island lay anchored, fringed close with willow and silver birch and alder.1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC. From the entry midmost
• Beneath a canopy of snow-dusted birch and spruce outside the border city of Imatra, Jussi Vainikka, captain of Finland’s border police for the country’s southeast, nods toward Moscow.2024 April 2, Howard LaFranchi, Anna Mulrine Grobe, “NATO has united the West for 75 years. Here’s why it still matters.”, in The…. From the entry snow-dusted
• Paper birch (Betula papyrifera) is found in the colder northern and interior portions of the Pacific Northwest, with its white peely-papery bark, sharply pointed leaves, and dense short catkins.2014, Douglas Deur, Pacific Northwest Foraging: 120 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Alaska Blueberries to Wild Hazelnuts, Timber Press…. From the entry peely
• Therefore, the forest stands formed by the tree species that endure excessive moisture (the alder, dasyphyllous birch, and poplar) are dominant in the composition of forests.2013 March, V. V. Furyaev, V. I. Zabolotskiy, S. D. Samsonenko, V. A. Chernykh, “Space-time Impact of Fire Events on Swamp-forest…. From the entry dasyphyllous
• Apt decided her visitor's arrival would be a while yet, so went back to her cottage to fetch some sweet-root scones and a woven birch waterbasket of herbal tea.2009, Megan Greenberg, The Orser's Promise, page 84. From the entry waterbasket
• Another commented on such useful bush-lore as lighting a fire with a shoe-lace, stick, and dry birch bark, and using an “Indian smoke pole” to keep bugs away.1998, John S. Marsh, Bruce W. Hodgins, Changing Parks, →ISBN, pages 126–127. From the entry smoke pole
• All three mountain-ashes are shrubs of climax and subclimax northern coniferous forest communities, along with speckled alder, Labrador tea, mountain and red maples, yellow birch, and bunchberry.1974, William M. Healy, Shrubs and Vines for Northeastern Wildlife, numbers 6-10, page 99. From the entry mountain ash
• 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
• Forest Service has information on income opportunities in special forest products with ideas ranging from aromatics (such as birch oil and cedar leaf oil) to flavorwood (like hickory and oak).1997, Alabama's Treasured Forests, volumes 16-18, page 15. From the entry flavorwood
• The taproots of trees like the false acacia, growing between Park Royal and Alperton, thrust deeply into the ground, while the spreading roots of the silver birch stitch the soil.1950 July, “Traveller's Joy”, in Railway Magazine, page ii (advertisement). From the entry taproot

Meaning of birch

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

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Questions about birch in a sentence

How do you use birch in a sentence?

Birch is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Many trees have alternate leaf arrangement (e.g. birch, oak and mulberry).”

What is a short sentence with birch?

“A birch twig or a cornstalk is monopodial.”

What does birch mean?

Birch means any of various trees of the genus Betula, native to countries in the Northern Hemisphere.