WHITE BIRCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does white birch mean? 

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

1. European birch with dull white to pale brown bark and somewhat drooping hairy branches

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHITE BIRCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

European birch with dull white to pale brown bark and somewhat drooping hairy branches

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Betula pubescens; downy birch; white birch

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

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

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

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

 Context examples 

A pentacyclic lupane-type triterpene derivative of betulin (isolated from the bark of Betula alba, the common white birch) with antiinflammatory, anti-HIV and antineoplastic activities.

(Betulinic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)