birch family

American  

noun

1. the plant family Betulaceae, characterized by deciduous trees having simple serrate leaves, male flowers in drooping catkins, female flowers in short clusters, and one-seeded nuts, and including the alder, birch, hazel, and hornbeam.

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Example Sentences

Another small tree of the birch family is the speckled alder, Alnus incana Moench, which is found occasionally in wet places in the northern part of the State.

From Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them by Fuller George D.

Some of these trees are sixty or seventy feet high, and all are very graceful, this species being considered the most beautiful of the numerous birch family.

From Among the Trees at Elmridge by Church, Ella Rodman

The white bark of this European poplar reminds us of the birch family, though it has no silky fringe shedding from the surface.

From Trees Worth Knowing by Rogers, Julia Ellen

THE blue beech, or American hornbeam, belongs to the birch family rather than to the beeches.

From Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them by Fuller George D.