Birken
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Made of birch; birchen. Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal, not-comparable, obsolete
"Beneath each birken shade, on mead or hill"
Adjective
- 1 consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree wordnet
Antonyms
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More examples"Beneath each birken shade, on mead or hill"
Etymology
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”).