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black birch

American  

noun

  1. sweet birch.


Etymology

Origin of black birch

An Americanism dating back to 1665–75

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Notably, eastern forests today have more species such as red maple, black birch, tulip poplar and blackgum than they did in the early 20th century.

From Salon Nov. 3, 2021

Milton served smoked venison, drizzled with a sauce made of malted sassafras and black birch syrup, and smoked collard greens.

From Washington Post Mar. 28, 2016

On the barren slope above Blackjack Mine, Bracky Baldridge owned a garden patch, a shack with puncheon floors, a black birch tree.

From Time Magazine Archive

The black birch with dark trunk, spreading branches, and light leaves, is now mingled with the queenly rimu, and the stiff, small-leaved, formal white pine.

From The Long White Cloud by William Pember Reeves

There is black birch, reluctant but steady; there is chestnut, vivacious, full of sudden enthusiasms; the apple, cheerful and willing; the maple and oak, sober and stanch, good for the long pull.

From The Jonathan Papers by Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris

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