PAPER BIRCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does paper birch mean? 

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

1. small American birch with peeling white bark often worked into e.g. baskets or toy canoes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAPER BIRCH (noun)

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Meaning:

Small American birch with peeling white bark often worked into e.g. baskets or toy canoes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

American white birch; Betula cordifolia; Betula papyrifera; canoe birch; paper birch; paperbark birch

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

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

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

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