RIVER BIRCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does river birch mean? 

• RIVER BIRCH (noun)
  The noun RIVER BIRCH has 1 sense:

1. birch of swamps and river bottoms throughout the eastern United States having reddish-brown bark

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIVER BIRCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Birch of swamps and river bottoms throughout the eastern United States having reddish-brown bark

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Betula nigra; black birch; red birch; river birch

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

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

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

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