white birch

noun

1. the European birch, Betula pendula, yielding a hard wood.
2. paper birch.

white birch

noun

1. any of several birch trees with white bark, such as the silver birch of Europe and the paper birch of North America See also birch

Word History and Origins

Origin of white birch¹

First recorded in 1780–90

Example Sentences

He made his fortune with a company called White Birch, one of the largest paper manufacturing companies in the U.S.

From The Daily Beast

There is the “white birch,” a worthless tree of some twenty feet in height, and less than six inches diameter.

From Project Gutenberg

Henderson sat at the foot of a ragged white birch which leaned from the upper rim of the pot.

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The hollow was thick with young spruce and white birch, clustered about a single tall and massive rampike.

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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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