yellow birch


noun
  1. a North American birch, Betula alleghaniensis (or B. lutea), having yellowish or silvery gray bark.

  2. the hard, light, reddish-brown wood of this tree, used in the construction of furniture, buildings, boxes, etc.

Origin of yellow birch

1
First recorded in 1765–75

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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 Burroughs
  • They are the natural home of the black and yellow birch, which grow here to unusual size.

    A Year in the Fields | John Burroughs
  • Salt fish were stacked up on the wharves, looking like corded wood, maple and yellow birch with the bark left on.

    Cape Cod | Henry D. Thoreau
  • At 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 Cable
  • The high ridge running through the region bears a splendid forest of maple, yellow birch, and linden, with little if any hemlock.