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MOUNTAIN BIRCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mountain birch mean? 

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

1. birch of western United States resembling the paper birch but having brownish barkplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


MOUNTAIN BIRCH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Birch of western United States resembling the paper birch but having brownish bark

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Betula fontinalis; mountain birch; swamp birch; water birch; Western birch; Western paper birch

Hypernyms ("mountain birch" is a kind of...):

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

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

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


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