| 释义 |
birch/bɜ:tʃ/ n. & v.●n. 1 (also 亦作 birch tree) any tree of the genus Betula, having thin peeling bark, bearing catkins, and found predominantly in northern temperate regions 桦；桦属树木 2 (in full 全称 birchwood) the hard fine-grained pale wood of these trees 桦木 3 NZ any of various similar trees [新]类似桦属的树木 4 (in full 全称 birch-rod) a bundle of birch twigs used for flogging 桦条 ●v. tr. beat with a birch (in sense 4 of n. 用于名词释义 4) 用桦条打 □ birchen adj.[Old English bi(e)rce, from Germanic] |