AMERICAN GREY BIRCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does American grey birch mean? 

• AMERICAN GREY BIRCH (noun)
  The noun AMERICAN GREY BIRCH has 1 sense:

1. medium-sized birch of eastern North America having white or pale grey bark and valueless wood; occurs often as a second-growth forest tree

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMERICAN GREY BIRCH (noun)

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Meaning:

Medium-sized birch of eastern North America having white or pale grey bark and valueless wood; occurs often as a second-growth forest tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

American gray birch; American grey birch; Betula populifolia; gray birch; grey birch

Hypernyms ("American grey birch" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("American grey birch" is a member of...):

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