yellow birch
a North American birch, Betula alleghaniensis (or B. lutea), having yellowish or silvery gray bark.
the hard, light, reddish-brown wood of this tree, used in the construction of furniture, buildings, boxes, etc.
Origin of yellow birch
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How to use yellow birch in a sentence
On looking around I saw where one had been at work excavating a lodge in a small yellow birch.
A Year in the Fields | John BurroughsThey are the natural home of the black and yellow birch, which grow here to unusual size.
A Year in the Fields | John BurroughsSalt fish were stacked up on the wharves, looking like corded wood, maple and yellow birch with the bark left on.
Cape Cod | Henry D. ThoreauAt every turn it mirrored back the slanting forms of the white and the yellow birch, or slept under green mantles of lily pads.
Bylow Hill | George Washington CableThe high ridge running through the region bears a splendid forest of maple, yellow birch, and linden, with little if any hemlock.
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