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BETULA PUBESCENS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Betula pubescens mean?
• BETULA PUBESCENS (noun)
The noun BETULA PUBESCENS has 1 sense:
1. European birch with dull white to pale brown bark and somewhat drooping hairy branches
Familiarity information: BETULA PUBESCENS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
European birch with dull white to pale brown bark and somewhat drooping hairy branches
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Betula pubescens; downy birch; white birch
Hypernyms ("Betula pubescens" is a kind of...):
birch; birch tree (any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark)
Holonyms ("Betula pubescens" is a member of...):
Betula; genus Betula (a genus of trees of the family Betulaceae (such as birches))
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