birchwood

See also: Birchwood

English

Alternative forms

• birch wood

Etymology

birch +‎ wood

Noun

birchwood (countable and uncountable, plural birchwoods)

1. (countable) A wood largely populated with birch trees (Betula spp.).
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 79:

     Well, thought I, I had better let the dogs find the way, which I did, but when I came past some rocks down there, I saw an old witch right in front of some small birchwood with a cloth on her head, a leather jacket, and black skirt; she was leaning on a crutch-handled stick and looked like a woman from the country.

2. (uncountable) The wood from a birch tree.

   Synonym: birch