canoe birch
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of canoe birch
An Americanism dating back to 1800–10
Example Sentences
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Paper birch is also known as white birch, or canoe birch, as American Indians used the bark for their canoes.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 18, 2022
Aromatic but less so than the bark of the black birch; not readily detachable like the bark of the canoe birch.
From Handbook of the Trees of New England by Lorin Low Dame
Miss Caroline G. Soule has seen the butterflies depositing their eggs upon the white and canoe birch, and it has been recorded as feeding in Labrador and Europe upon a species of birch.
From Butterflies Worth Knowing by Clarence M. Weed
The uses name post oak, canoe birch, and lodge-pole pine.
From Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers
It was a dead part, more than a foot in diameter, of a large canoe birch, which branched at the ground.
From Canoeing in the wilderness by Henry David Thoreau
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