yellow birch

noun

1. a North American birch, Betula alleghaniensis (or B. lutea ), having yellowish or silvery gray bark.
2. the hard, light, reddish-brown wood of this tree, used in the construction of furniture, buildings, boxes, etc.

Word History and Origins

Origin of yellow birch¹

First recorded in 1765–75

Example Sentences

On looking around I saw where one had been at work excavating a lodge in a small yellow birch.

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They are the natural home of the black and yellow birch, which grow here to unusual size.

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Salt fish were stacked up on the wharves, looking like corded wood, maple and yellow birch with the bark left on.

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At every turn it mirrored back the slanting forms of the white and the yellow birch, or slept under green mantles of lily pads.

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The high ridge running through the region bears a splendid forest of maple, yellow birch, and linden, with little if any hemlock.

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