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adj
Made of birch; birchen.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal, not-comparable, obsolete
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: birch, birchen
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Middle English birchen, birken, from Old English bircen, *biercen, beorcen (“made of birch, birchen”), from Proto-Germanic *birkīnaz (“made of birch”). Cognate with English birchen, Dutch berken (“birchen”), Low German berken (“birchen”), German birken (“birchen”).
