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silver birch

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noun

  1. a betulaceous tree, Betula pendula, of N temperate regions of the Old World, having silvery-white peeling bark See also birch

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The researchers looked at how long enveloped and nonenveloped viruses remained infectious on the surface of six types of wood: Scots pine, silver birch, gray alder, eucalyptus, pedunculate oak and Norway spruce.

From Science Daily • Jun. 19, 2024

Experts grew the fungus in the lab, then transplanted the spores into silver birch logs in the wildlife garden at Wisley Gardens, Surrey.

From BBC • Jan. 14, 2023

A brisk speed-walk through the silver birch forests before breakfast, perhaps ending with an ice bath in the Moscow River by way of boosting the immune system.

From Salon • Mar. 3, 2022

Both have fields of heather, gorse, Scotch broom and clusters of pine, oak and silver birch.

From Golf Digest • Jan. 11, 2018

The gravel track led downhill into a narrow belt of silver birch and rowan.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

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