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CHERRY BIRCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cherry birch mean? 

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

1. common birch of the eastern United States having spicy brown bark yielding a volatile oil and hard dark wood used for furnitureplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


CHERRY BIRCH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Common birch of the eastern United States having spicy brown bark yielding a volatile oil and hard dark wood used for furniture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Betula lenta; black birch; cherry birch; sweet birch

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

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

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

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


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