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White birch

noun

European birch with dull white to pale brown bark and somewhat drooping hairy branches. Synonyms: Betula pubescens, downy birch.

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American white birch

European white birch

Yukon white birch

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"White birch" Quotes from Famous Books

... on the leaves of young shoots and bushes, or the smaller trees—the red and other maples, the white birch, the balsam, fur, poplar, and mountain ash; and occasionally, as has been said, on the roots of the yellow pond-lily, with a bite now and then at a tussock of broad-leaved grass growing in the dried bogs. To get at the foliage beyond ...

— The Western World - Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North - and South America • W.H.G. Kingston

... style. Fences carefully concealed, a deep fringe of hard wood trees on one side, a trim lilac hedge on the other, and a plantation of shrubs, roan, barbary, sumac, lilac and young maple. On the side west of the house was observable, next to a rustic seat, in the fork of a white birch, an archaeological monument made with the key-stone of Prescott and Palace Gates when removed by order of the City Corporation, [234] it stands ...

— Picturesque Quebec • James MacPherson Le Moine

Words linked to "White birch" : birch, Betula, genus Betula, Yukon white birch, birch tree, European white birch