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    BIRCH TREE

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling barkplay

    Synonyms:

    birch; birch tree

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("birch tree" is a kind of...):

    tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

    Meronyms (substance of "birch tree"):

    birch (hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "birch tree"):

    Betula alleghaniensis; Betula leutea; yellow birch (tree of eastern North America with thin lustrous yellow or grey bark)

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

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

    Betula pendula; common birch; European white birch; silver birch (European birch with silvery white peeling bark and markedly drooping branches)

    Betula pubescens; downy birch; white birch (European birch with dull white to pale brown bark and somewhat drooping hairy branches)

    Betula nigra; black birch; red birch; river birch (birch of swamps and river bottoms throughout the eastern United States having reddish-brown bark)

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

    Betula neoalaskana; Yukon white birch (Alaskan birch with white to pale brown bark)

    Betula fontinalis; mountain birch; swamp birch; water birch; Western birch; Western paper birch (birch of western United States resembling the paper birch but having brownish bark)

    American dwarf birch; Betula glandulosa; Newfoundland dwarf birch (small shrub of colder parts of North America and Greenland)

    Holonyms ("birch tree" is a member of...):

    Betula; genus Betula (a genus of trees of the family Betulaceae (such as birches))

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