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SILVER BIRCH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does silver birch mean?
• SILVER BIRCH (noun)
The noun SILVER BIRCH has 1 sense:
1. European birch with silvery white peeling bark and markedly drooping branches
Familiarity information: SILVER BIRCH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
European birch with silvery white peeling bark and markedly drooping branches
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Betula pendula; common birch; European white birch; silver birch
Hypernyms ("silver birch" is a kind of...):
birch; birch tree (any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark)
Holonyms ("silver birch" is a member of...):
Betula; genus Betula (a genus of trees of the family Betulaceae (such as birches))
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