birch : Idioms & Phrases

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american dwarf birch

  • noun small shrub of colder parts of North America and Greenland
    Betula glandulosa; American dwarf birch.
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american gray birch

  • noun medium-sized birch of eastern North America having white or pale grey bark and valueless wood; occurs often as a second-growth forest tree
    gray birch; American grey birch; American gray birch; Betula populifolia.
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american grey birch

  • noun medium-sized birch of eastern North America having white or pale grey bark and valueless wood; occurs often as a second-growth forest tree
    gray birch; American grey birch; American gray birch; Betula populifolia.
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american white birch

  • noun small American birch with peeling white bark often worked into e.g. baskets or toy canoes
    Betula papyrifera; American white birch; canoe birch; Betula cordifolia; paper birch.
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birch bark

  • noun a canoe made with the bark of a birch tree
    birchbark canoe; birchbark.
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birch beer

  • noun carbonated drink containing an extract from bark of birch trees
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birch family

  • noun monoecious trees and shrubs (including the genera Betula and Alnus and Carpinus and Corylus and Ostrya and Ostryopsis)
    Betulaceae; family Betulaceae.
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birch leaf miner

  • noun small black sawfly native to Europe but established in eastern United States; larvae mine the leaves of birches causing serious defoliation
    Fenusa pusilla.
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Birch of Jamaica

  • a species (Bursera gummifera) of turpentine tree.
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birch oil

  • noun a liquid ester with a strong odor of wintergreen; applied externally for minor muscle and joint pain
    methyl salicylate; birch oil.
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Birch partridge

  • . (Zoöl.) See Ruffed grouse.
Webster 1913

birch rod

  • noun a switch consisting of a twig or a bundle of twigs from a birch tree; used to hit people as punishment
    birch.
    • my father never spared the birch
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birch tree

  • noun any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark
    birch.
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Birch wine

  • wine made of the spring sap of the birch.
Webster 1913

black birch

  • noun common birch of the eastern United States having spicy brown bark yielding a volatile oil and hard dark wood used for furniture
    cherry birch; black birch; Betula lenta.
  • noun birch of swamps and river bottoms throughout the eastern United States having reddish-brown bark
    red birch; black birch; Betula nigra.
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canoe birch

  • noun small American birch with peeling white bark often worked into e.g. baskets or toy canoes
    Betula papyrifera; American white birch; canoe birch; Betula cordifolia; paper birch.
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cherry birch

  • noun common birch of the eastern United States having spicy brown bark yielding a volatile oil and hard dark wood used for furniture
    cherry birch; black birch; Betula lenta.
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common birch

  • noun European birch with silvery white peeling bark and markedly drooping branches
    common birch; European white birch; Betula pendula.
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downy birch

  • noun European birch with dull white to pale brown bark and somewhat drooping hairy branches
    downy birch; Betula pubescens.
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european white birch

  • noun European birch with silvery white peeling bark and markedly drooping branches
    common birch; European white birch; Betula pendula.
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gray birch

  • noun medium-sized birch of eastern North America having white or pale grey bark and valueless wood; occurs often as a second-growth forest tree
    gray birch; American grey birch; American gray birch; Betula populifolia.
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grey birch

  • noun medium-sized birch of eastern North America having white or pale grey bark and valueless wood; occurs often as a second-growth forest tree
    gray birch; American grey birch; American gray birch; Betula populifolia.
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mountain birch

  • noun birch of western United States resembling the paper birch but having brownish bark
    Betula fontinalis; mountain birch; swamp birch; Western birch; water birch.
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newfoundland dwarf birch

  • noun small shrub of colder parts of North America and Greenland
    Betula glandulosa; American dwarf birch.
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Oil of birch

  • . (a) An oil obtained from the bark of the common European birch (Betula alba), and used in the preparation of genuine ( and sometimes of the imitation) Russia leather, to which it gives its peculiar odor. (b) An oil prepared from the black birch (B. lenta), said to be identical with the oil of wintergreen, for which it is largely sold.
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Paper birch

  • noun small American birch with peeling white bark often worked into e.g. baskets or toy canoes
    Betula papyrifera; American white birch; canoe birch; Betula cordifolia; paper birch.
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  • (Bot.), the canoe birch tree (Betula papyracea).
Webster 1913

paperbark birch

  • noun small American birch with peeling white bark often worked into e.g. baskets or toy canoes
    Betula papyrifera; American white birch; canoe birch; Betula cordifolia; paper birch.
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Red birch

  • noun birch of swamps and river bottoms throughout the eastern United States having reddish-brown bark
    red birch; black birch; Betula nigra.
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  • (Bot.), a species of birch (Betula nigra) having reddish brown bark, and compact, light-colored wood. Gray.
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river birch

  • noun birch of swamps and river bottoms throughout the eastern United States having reddish-brown bark
    red birch; black birch; Betula nigra.
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silver birch

  • noun European birch with silvery white peeling bark and markedly drooping branches
    common birch; European white birch; Betula pendula.
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swamp birch

  • noun birch of western United States resembling the paper birch but having brownish bark
    Betula fontinalis; mountain birch; swamp birch; Western birch; water birch.
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sweet birch

  • noun common birch of the eastern United States having spicy brown bark yielding a volatile oil and hard dark wood used for furniture
    cherry birch; black birch; Betula lenta.
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sweet-birch oil

  • noun a liquid ester with a strong odor of wintergreen; applied externally for minor muscle and joint pain
    methyl salicylate; birch oil.
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water birch

  • noun birch of western United States resembling the paper birch but having brownish bark
    Betula fontinalis; mountain birch; swamp birch; Western birch; water birch.
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western birch

  • noun birch of western United States resembling the paper birch but having brownish bark
    Betula fontinalis; mountain birch; swamp birch; Western birch; water birch.
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western paper birch

  • noun birch of western United States resembling the paper birch but having brownish bark
    Betula fontinalis; mountain birch; swamp birch; Western birch; water birch.
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white birch

  • noun European birch with dull white to pale brown bark and somewhat drooping hairy branches
    downy birch; Betula pubescens.
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yellow birch

  • noun tree of eastern North America with thin lustrous yellow or grey bark
    Betula leutea; Betula alleghaniensis.
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yukon white birch

  • noun Alaskan birch with white to pale brown bark
    Betula neoalaskana.
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