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Birch tree   /bərtʃ tri/   Listen
Birch tree

noun
1.
Any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark.  Synonym: birch.






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"Birch tree" Quotes from Famous Books



... him, went towards some bushes. I saw him then stoop, plunge his arm into a thick tuft, whence he took out a spade: arising quickly, he went on some paces without saying a word; and when we reached a birch tree, several of the boughs of which I observed were broken, he took off his hat and coat, and began to dig. He went to work with so much good-will, that his labour rapidly advanced. Suddenly he stooped down, and then escaped from him that ha! which betokens satisfaction, ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 14, No. 381 Saturday, July 18, 1829 • Various

... to a neighbouring spring and filled thereat a cup made of the bark of the birch tree, with which he ...
— The Hot Swamp • R.M. Ballantyne

... ago, a poor Highland soldier, on his return to his native hills, fatigued, as was supposed, by the length of the march and the heat of the weather, sat down under the shade of a birch tree on the solitary road of Lowran, that winds along the margin of Loch Ken, in Galloway. Here he was found dead; and this incident forms the subject of these verses.—Note by the Author. "The Highlander" is ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volumes I-VI. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various

... Nuneham or Cliefden. The angler, too, is as fortunate as the lover of the picturesque. The trout that have hidden themselves all summer, or at best have cautiously nibbled at the worm- bait, now rise freely to the fly. Wherever a yellow leaf drops from birch tree or elm the great trout are splashing, and they are too eager to distinguish very subtly between flies of nature's making and flies of fur and feather. It is a time when every one who can manage it should be by the water-side, and should take with him, if possible, ...
— Lost Leaders • Andrew Lang

... till we come." We travelled quietly, and as silently as we could for near half a mile, and as we rounded a low but steep point of a hill, there sat bruin, some twelve rods from us, in the forks of a great birch tree, forty feet from the ground, looking down in calm dignity upon the dogs that were baying and leaping up against the tree beneath him. Did anybody ever notice what a meek, innocent look a bear has when in repose? How hypocritically he leers ...
— Wild Northern Scenes - Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod • S. H. Hammond



Words linked to "Birch tree" :   American gray birch, Betula leutea, downy birch, Yukon white birch, swamp birch, Betula cordifolia, common birch, sweet birch, yellow birch, American grey birch, tree, Betula populifolia, black birch, Betula neoalaskana, grey birch, paper birch, water birch, silver birch, paperbark birch, Betula pubescens, Western paper birch, Betula, Betula lenta, white birch, canoe birch, red birch, Betula fontinalis, Betula papyrifera, Western birch, mountain birch, gray birch, Betula glandulosa, American white birch, cherry birch, Newfoundland dwarf birch, Betula alleghaniensis, European white birch, American dwarf birch, genus Betula, Betula nigra, Betula pendula, river birch



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