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AMERICAN WHITE BIRCH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does American white birch mean?
• AMERICAN WHITE BIRCH (noun)
The noun AMERICAN WHITE BIRCH has 1 sense:
1. small American birch with peeling white bark often worked into e.g. baskets or toy canoes
Familiarity information: AMERICAN WHITE BIRCH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small American birch with peeling white bark often worked into e.g. baskets or toy canoes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
American white birch; Betula cordifolia; Betula papyrifera; canoe birch; paper birch; paperbark birch
Hypernyms ("American white birch" is a kind of...):
birch; birch tree (any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark)
Holonyms ("American white birch" is a member of...):
Betula; genus Betula (a genus of trees of the family Betulaceae (such as birches))
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