Birch



GRE

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n.桦树, 赤杨
• ［同］ 近形词: birth ( 出生) ; bitch ( 母狗)

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: Middle English, from Old English beorc; akin to Old High German birka birch, Old English beorht bright, and probably to Latin fraxinus ash tree — more at bright
• Date: before 12th century
• 1. any of a genus (Betula of the family Betulaceae, the birch family) of monoecious deciduous usually short-lived trees or shrubs having simple petioled leaves and typically a layered membranous outer bark that peels readily
• 2. the hard pale close-grained wood of a birch
• 3. a birch rod or bundle of twigs for flogging
• ? birch or birchen adjective

II. transitive verb

• Date: 1830
• to beat with or as if with a birch ; whip

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