COMMON BIRCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does common birch mean? 

• COMMON BIRCH (noun)
  The noun COMMON BIRCH has 1 sense:

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMON 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 ("common birch" is a kind of...):

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

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

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