red birch

noun

1. river birch.

Word History and Origins

Origin of red birch¹

An Americanism dating back to 1775–85

Example Sentences

Birch is commercially divided, according to the quantity of heartwood present, into white birch and red birch.

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The first bird seen in the woods was a white-breasted nuthatch, working on the trunk of a red birch on the river bottom.

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Outside of Indiana it is known as red birch and river birch.

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A number of stocks of red birch, white birch and scrub oak grafted with European hazels and chinkapins, but the grafts all died.

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A great hive of maggots, a brown clot, in the arms of a red birch, broke as Manuel swung the knife.

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