white birch
the European birch, Betula pendula, yielding a hard wood.
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How to use white birch in a sentence
He made his fortune with a company called white birch, one of the largest paper manufacturing companies in the U.S.
There is the “white birch,” a worthless tree of some twenty feet in height, and less than six inches diameter.
Popular Adventure Tales | Mayne ReidHenderson sat at the foot of a ragged white birch which leaned from the upper rim of the pot.
The Backwoodsmen | Charles G. D. RobertsThe hollow was thick with young spruce and white birch, clustered about a single tall and massive rampike.
The Backwoodsmen | Charles G. D. RobertsIts rocky surface sustained a scant growth of gnarled black spruce and stunted white birch, with here and there patches of brush.
The Gaunt Gray Wolf | Dillon Wallace
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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British Dictionary definitions for white birch
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 (def. 1)
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