silver birch

noun

1. a betulaceous tree, Betula pendula, of N temperate regions of the Old World, having silvery-white peeling bark See also birch

Example Sentences

Caroline Leafe, 70, was walking in Ashdown Forest with her husband Kenneth and their dog on 25 January last year, when the pair were hit by a silver birch as it was being felled.

From BBC

These could include English oak, beech, silver birch and holly trees, which they say could be vulnerable to warmer temperatures and longer dry spells.

From BBC

The researchers looked at how long enveloped and nonenveloped viruses remained infectious on the surface of six types of wood: Scots pine, silver birch, gray alder, eucalyptus, pedunculate oak and Norway spruce.

From Science Daily

Experts grew the fungus in the lab, then transplanted the spores into silver birch logs in the wildlife garden at Wisley Gardens, Surrey.

From BBC

A brisk speed-walk through the silver birch forests before breakfast, perhaps ending with an ice bath in the Moscow River by way of boosting the immune system.

From Salon