Definition of "birches" [birches]

• Plural form of birch. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of birch. (verb)

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• "It was just past midday, but the light under the birches was a shadowed gold that made everything seem somehow hushed, almost enchanted."
• "The birches were a darker hue of the same colour; hickories bright as gold."
• "In another series done in 1980 at the MacDowell Colony, she photographed her body fusing with a stand of birches, as though re-enacting the myth of Daphne, who was changed into a tree by her mother to escape the clutches of Apollo."