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CANOE BIRCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does canoe birch mean? 

CANOE BIRCH (noun)
  The noun CANOE BIRCH has 1 sense:

1. small American birch with peeling white bark often worked into e.g. baskets or toy canoesplay

  Familiarity information: CANOE BIRCH used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CANOE BIRCH (noun)


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 ("canoe birch" is a kind of...):

birch; birch tree (any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark)

Holonyms ("canoe birch" is a member of...):

Betula; genus Betula (a genus of trees of the family Betulaceae (such as birches))


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