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  • noun Plural form of birchwood.

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Examples

  • I begin the long climb through the birchwoods to the ridge.

    The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

  • So that night it rained then in the morning the temperature dropped, he explained, dropped quickly and it turned the whole thing into a palace of ice, the birchwoods.

    Homage to A.Y. Jackson 1972

  • It inhabits dry places, especially birchwoods, and pinewoods, having a bright red upper surface studded with brown warts; and when taken as a poisonous agent it causes intoxication, delirium, and death through narcotism.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • I'm speaking of those Oxen Meadows which are wedged in between your birchwoods and the Burnt Marsh.

    Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

  • You will remember that my Oxen Meadows touch your birchwoods.

    Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

  • And even as they stood and looked, a faint gray veil gradually interposed between them and the distant landscape; a rainbow slowly formed, spanning the broad valley; and then behind the fairy curtain of the shower they could see the yellow river-banks, and the birchwoods, and the farther-stretching hills all vaguely and spectrally shining in the sun.

    Prince Fortunatus William Black 1869

  • These are the tools of our trade to be upgraded and improved upon at every opportunity (is this convincing enough?) and with Lantern Moons, which are indeed like swapping a Fiesta for a Bentley, and my Brittany birchwoods, my days of plastic Aero's are long gone.

    Brit Lit Blogs 2009

  • These are the tools of our trade to be upgraded and improved upon at every opportunity (is this convincing enough?) and with Lantern Moons, which are indeed like swapping a Fiesta for a Bentley, and my Brittany birchwoods, my days of plastic Aero's are long gone.

    Brit Lit Blogs 2009

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