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black birch

American  

noun

  1. sweet birch.


Etymology

Origin of black birch

An Americanism dating back to 1665–75

Example Sentences

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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

It has a flavor like that of the black birch.

From The Nursery, September 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 3 by Various

With these lies a black birch, whose once smooth bark age has scaled and furrowed, and robbed of all its tenderness and most of its pungent, aromatic flavor.

From In New England Fields and Woods by Robinson, Rowland E. (Evans)

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