sweet birch

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noun

a North American tree, Betula lenta, having smooth, blackish bark and twigs that are a source of methyl salicylate.

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Nearby words

sweet almond, sweet almond oil, sweet alyssum, sweet basil, sweet bay, sweet birch, sweet cassava, sweet cherry, sweet chestnut, sweet cicely, sweet cider

Origin of sweet birch

An Americanism dating back to 1775–85

Also called black birch, cherry birch.

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Examples from the Web for sweet birch

In the morning we made a fire of ozier, sweet-birch, cherry wood, and samphire.
The Little Red Foot|Robert W. Chambers