white birch

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noun

the European birch, Betula pendula, yielding a hard wood.

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Origin of white birch

First recorded in 1780–90

Words nearby white birch

whitebeam, white bear, whitebeard, White Bear Lake, white belt, white birch, white blood cell, white blood cells, whiteboard, white book, Whiteboy

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How to use white birch in a sentence

He made his fortune with a company called White Birch, one of the largest paper manufacturing companies in the U.S.
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There is the “white birch,” a worthless tree of some twenty feet in height, and less than six inches diameter.
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Henderson sat at the foot of a ragged white birch which leaned from the upper rim of the pot.
The Backwoodsmen|Charles G. D. Roberts
The hollow was thick with young spruce and white birch, clustered about a single tall and massive rampike.
The Backwoodsmen|Charles G. D. Roberts

Its rocky surface sustained a scant growth of gnarled black spruce and stunted white birch, with here and there patches of brush.
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If there was a white birch tree within a quarter of a mile of the home of your boyhood, you would remember it all your life.
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British Dictionary definitions for white birch

white birch

noun

any of several birch trees with white bark, such as the silver birch of Europe and the paper birch of North AmericaSee also birch (def. 1)

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