Definition of American white birch

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


Lexicographical Neighbors of American White Birch

American sweet chestnut
American sweet gum
American sweetgum
American sweetgums
American sycamore
American tarantula
American toad
American trypanosomiasis
American turkey oak
American twinflower
American wall fern
American water ouzel
American water shrew
American water spaniel
American watercress
American white birch
American white oak
American white pine
American widgeon
American widgeons
American wire gauge
American wistaria
American wisteria
American woodcock
American wormseed
Americana
Americanese
Americanisation
Americanisations
Americanise

Literary usage of American white birch

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"The white birch of Europe extends through Asia to Japan, and is cultivated in many varieties in America. american white birch, Aspen-leaved Birch ..."

2. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"British America and northern US Canoe Birch, Paper Birch, american white birch, Silver Birch, Bolean Birch, Spool-wood. Bark used for many purposes. ..."

3. Lawns and Gardens: How to Plant and Beautify the Home Lot, the Pleasure by Nils Jönsson-Rose (1897)
"... one of the most beautiful lawn trees. The white birch forms immense forests abounding in a rich herbaceous flora. The american white birch (J3. ..."

4. Botany: An Elementary Text for Schools by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1901)
"american white birch. Small and slender tree with rather tight, glistening, white bark: leaves triangular-acuminate, toothed, dangling, ..."

5. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"american white birch, GRAY BIRCH. Small slender tree, lo'J-3U-, with mostly larger dangling leaves than the last, very lustrous above, ..."

6. Andorra Nurseries: Wm. Warner Harper, Proprietor, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia by William Warner Harper (1903)
"american white birch. (Mr) A small, graceful tree, thriving in poor and dry soils. Bark grayish white; not as silvery as 'B. alba. B. papyrifera. ..."

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