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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Also called black birch, cherry birch.

Origin of sweet birch

An Americanism dating back to 1775–85

Words nearby sweet birch

sweet, sweet alyssum, sweet-and-sour, sweet basil, sweet bay, sweet birch, sweetbread, sweetbrier, sweet cherry, sweet chestnut, sweet cicely

How to use sweet birch in a sentence

The first, to my surprise, was in the topmost branches of a tall sweet-birch, perhaps forty feet above the ground.
A Rambler's lease|Bradford Torrey
The black or sweet birch (Betula lenta) has a bark similar to the gray birch, except that its color is dark gray.
Studies of Trees|Jacob Joshua Levison
The wood of sweet birch had few uses in early times, except fuel.
American Forest Trees|Henry H. Gibson
The sweet birch is tapped like sugar maple, but not for the same purpose or to the same extent—only an occasional tree.
American Forest Trees|Henry H. Gibson

Difficulties are encountered in assigning sweet birch its individual place in the industrial world.
American Forest Trees|Henry H. Gibson