Birch-tree
81paperbark birch — noun small American birch with peeling white bark often worked into e.g. baskets or toy canoes • Syn: ↑American white birch, ↑paper birch, ↑canoe birch, ↑Betula cordifolia, ↑Betula papyrifera • Hypernyms: ↑birch, ↑birc …
82common birch — noun European birch with silvery white peeling bark and markedly drooping branches • Syn: ↑silver birch, ↑European white birch, ↑Betula pendula • Hypernyms: ↑birch, ↑birch tree • Member Holonyms: ↑ …
83river birch — noun birch of swamps and river bottoms throughout the eastern United States having reddish brown bark • Syn: ↑black birch, ↑red birch, ↑Betula nigra • Hypernyms: ↑birch, ↑birch tree • Member Holonyms: ↑ …
84yellow birch — noun tree of eastern North America with thin lustrous yellow or grey bark • Syn: ↑Betula alleghaniensis, ↑Betula leutea • Hypernyms: ↑birch, ↑birch tree • Member Holonyms: ↑Betula, ↑gen …
85downy birch — noun European birch with dull white to pale brown bark and somewhat drooping hairy branches • Syn: ↑white birch, ↑Betula pubescens • Hypernyms: ↑birch, ↑birch tree • Member Holonyms: ↑Betula, ↑ …
86American dwarf birch — noun small shrub of colder parts of North America and Greenland • Syn: ↑Newfoundland dwarf birch, ↑Betula glandulosa • Hypernyms: ↑birch, ↑birch tree • Member Holonyms: ↑Betula, ↑ …
87Newfoundland dwarf birch — noun small shrub of colder parts of North America and Greenland • Syn: ↑American dwarf birch, ↑Betula glandulosa • Hypernyms: ↑birch, ↑birch tree • Member Holonyms: ↑Betula, ↑genus Be …
88Yukon white birch — noun Alaskan birch with white to pale brown bark • Syn: ↑Betula neoalaskana • Hypernyms: ↑birch, ↑birch tree • Member Holonyms: ↑Betula, ↑genus Betula …
89Paper birch — Paper Pa per (p[=a] p[ e]r), n. [F. papier, fr. L. papyrus papyrus, from which the Egyptians made a kind of paper, Gr. pa pyros. Cf. {Papyrus}.] 1. A substance in the form of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on, or to be… …
90silver birch — noun (C, U) a type of birch tree that has a silvery white trunk and branches …
