canoe birch

American  

noun

1. paper birch.

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Etymology

Origin of canoe birch

An Americanism dating back to 1800–10

Example Sentences

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

Next to the aspen and poplars comes the canoe birch, and further north the yellow birch, and such other trees as have provision for scattering their seeds.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 by Various

"Now," said Malcolm, gleefully, "the canoe birch has got to come next, because there isn't anything else to come."

From Among the Trees at Elmridge by Church, Ella Rodman

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 Weed, Clarence M.

There will be, also, a shadbush or two and certainly some hobble bushes, with here and there a young pine and small, slender canoe birch.

From How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers by Bleyer, Willard Grosvenor