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n. Plural form of birch.

v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of birch.

"It was just past midday, but the light under the birches was a shadowed gold that made everything seem somehow hushed, almost enchanted."

woody   

birched    birches    birching   

switch    wood    strap    welt    slash    trounce    flog    lather    lash    whip   

gray birch    old field-birch    moor-birch    gumbo-limbo    white birch    black birch    bog birch    west indian birch    water-birch    indian paper-birch   

birched    birching    birchen    birch wood   

birchen    flog   

Church    church    lurch    perch    research    search   

willow    maple    cedar    hickory    sycamore    evergreen    pine    larch    juniper    chestnut