yellow birch

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noun

a North American birch, Betula alleghaniensis (or B. lutea), having yellowish or silvery gray bark.

the hard, light, reddish-brown wood of this tree, used in the construction of furniture, buildings, boxes, etc.

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“Was” is used for the indicative past tense of “to be,” and “were” is only used for the subjunctive past tense.

Origin of yellow birch

First recorded in 1765–75

One day last fall, I drove an hour down a dirt road to a new-to-me unmarked trail and found it covered in yellow birch leaves, camouflaging it with the rest of the woods.
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Abraham, a yellow cab driver and student, feels that blacks are targeted unfairly by the police.
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Some of the items Indonesian military aircraft saw were long yellow tubes.
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With the first set I did, the colors of the couch determined that the rest of it would be blue and yellow and white.
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Behind him stood a flock of fifth-grade boys—and two second-grade girls—all of them wearing the exact same yellow hat.
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Cosby then allegedly ordered a pre-paid yellow cab that transported Allison home.
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The pink flowers are the largest while those of a yellow color are the smallest.
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The flowers grow in clusters from the extremities of the stalk; they are yellow externally and of a delicate red within.
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He was cast down to think that he might have spared himself the trouble of donning his beautiful yellow doublet from Paris.
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In the presence of bromin the chloroform, which settles to the bottom, assumes a yellow color.
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As she peered into the face of Dr. Ashton, her own was scarlet and yellow, and her voice rose to a shriek.
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