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Silver birch   /sˈɪlvər bərtʃ/   Listen
Silver birch

noun
1.
European birch with silvery white peeling bark and markedly drooping branches.  Synonyms: Betula pendula, common birch, European white birch.






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"Silver birch" Quotes from Famous Books



... was some three-quarters of a mile from point to point, built in a circle, or wide horseshoe, with an opening of twenty feet at the mouth of the lagoon. Pine-trees grew thickly all over, but here and there were patches of silver birch, scrub oak, and considerable colonies of wild raspberry and gooseberry bushes. The two ends of the horseshoe formed bare slabs of smooth granite running into the sea and forming dangerous reefs just below the surface, but the rest of the island rose in a forty-foot ridge and sloped down steeply ...
— Three More John Silence Stories • Algernon Blackwood



Words linked to "Silver birch" :   European white birch, common birch, birch, genus Betula, Betula pendula, Betula, birch tree



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