birch
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood
Types & categories
- wood hypernym
Parts & wholes
- birch tree substance holonym
Sense 2 verb
whip with a birch twig
Types & categories
- whip hypernym
Related & opposite
- birch rod derivation
Sense 3 adjective
consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree
Related & opposite
- woody similar to
Sense 4 noun
any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark
Types & categories
- tree hypernym
- yellow birch hyponym
- American white birch hyponym
- grey birch hyponym
- silver birch hyponym
- downy birch hyponym
- river birch hyponym
- black birch hyponym
- Yukon white birch hyponym
- swamp birch hyponym
- Newfoundland dwarf birch hyponym
Parts & wholes
Sense 5 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
Types & categories
- switch hypernym
Related & opposite
- birch derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | substance holonym | Parts & wholes | birch tree |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | wood |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | birch rod |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | whip |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | woody |
| 4 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | Betula |
| 4 | substance meronym | Parts & wholes | birch |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | tree |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | yellow birch |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | American white birch |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | grey birch |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | silver birch |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | downy birch |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | river birch |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | black birch |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | Yukon white birch |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | swamp birch |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | Newfoundland dwarf birch |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | birch |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | switch |