Birches

What does BIRCHES mean?

Birches is a form of BIRCH.

1. noun

   hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood

2. noun

   any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark

3. noun

   a switch consisting of a twig or a bundle of twigs from a birch tree; used to hit people as punishment

   “my father never spared the birch”

4. verb

   whip with a birch twig

Definitions from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University.