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SWEET BIRCH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sweet birch mean?
• SWEET BIRCH (noun)
The noun SWEET BIRCH has 1 sense:
1. common birch of the eastern United States having spicy brown bark yielding a volatile oil and hard dark wood used for furniture
Familiarity information: SWEET BIRCH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Common birch of the eastern United States having spicy brown bark yielding a volatile oil and hard dark wood used for furniture
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Betula lenta; black birch; cherry birch; sweet birch
Hypernyms ("sweet birch" is a kind of...):
birch; birch tree (any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark)
Holonyms ("sweet birch" is a member of...):
Betula; genus Betula (a genus of trees of the family Betulaceae (such as birches))
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