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SILVER BIRCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does silver birch mean? 

SILVER BIRCH (noun)
  The noun SILVER BIRCH has 1 sense:

1. European birch with silvery white peeling bark and markedly drooping branchesplay

  Familiarity information: SILVER BIRCH used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SILVER BIRCH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

European birch with silvery white peeling bark and markedly drooping branches

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Betula pendula; common birch; European white birch; silver birch

Hypernyms ("silver birch" is a kind of...):

birch; birch tree (any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark)

Holonyms ("silver birch" is a member of...):

Betula; genus Betula (a genus of trees of the family Betulaceae (such as birches))


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